The use of figures of speech is dominant in creative writing. Writers use figures of speech to add depth to a statement engaging the readers to be thinkers thus pushing them towards the discovery of meaning. Do you remember them? Simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, allusion, personification, litotes, paradox, oxymoron, synecdoche, metonymy, apostrophe, hyperbole, irony.
This is often confused with the figures of speech; however, these two are vastly different. There are only 8 parts of speech: noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, verb, conjunction, preposition, interjection.
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