Definition of literary figures

When you talk about figures literary, reference is being made mainly to those forms of language and of the communication that have been designed to emphasize, lighten, decorate or draw normal expressions. In this sense, literary figures resort to words with their proper and common meaning but transforming it in a way that wins. a new expressiveness and that serves then for specific situations in which these forms of language are useful and interesting Although literary figures can also be used in everyday communication, they receive that name as they are especially effective in communication. production literary.

According to what is commonly accepted, language presents two main types of literary figures. One of these two types has to do with the way in which words are expressed and another with the meaning symbolic that is given to those words when they are used in the form of literary figures. The former are known as diction figures and the second as figures of thought.

Among the first we can mention figures such as the apocopes (for example, 'great' instead of great or 'third' instead of third. Those abbreviated and socially accepted forms can also be shortened, such as in the case of 'tele' for television or 'tel' for telephone), ellipsis (which removes some terms already mentioned in order to lighten the meaning of the sentence), the hyperbaton (which consists of altering the grammatical order of words causing the subject - verb - rule not to be respected complements), among others.

In literary figures of thought we find paraphrasing (or the reinterpretation of a text, phrase or sentence - hence the verb 'paraphrase'), the epithet (the aggregation of qualifiers inherent to nouns, for example 'the immense mar '), the exclamation (used to express emotions intense) or personification (the attribution from person qualities to inanimate objects or entities) among many others.