Figure of Speech (or stylistic device or rhetorical device) is using of different styles to complement an idea, feeling or meaning. These speeches give importance, newness of expression, or clearness. The following are the figures of speeches: Synecdoche, Anastrophe, Anaphora, Antonomasia, Personification, Simile, Analogy, Metaphor, Alliteration, Euphemism, Assonance,Idiom, Funny Metaphors, Jargon, Double Negative, Anadiplosis,Appositive, Enthymeme, Parallelism, Adjunction, Antithesis,Apostrophe, Climax, Metonymy, Oxymoron, Litotes, Paralipsis,Hyperbole, Onomatopoeia, Imagery, Symbol, Pun, Allegory,Tautology, Rhetoric, Zeugma, Anticlimax, Consonance, Irony,Polysyndeton, Rhetorical Question, Asyndeton, Parenthesis,Antimetabole, Epistrophe, Understatement, Chiasmus, Epithet andFalse Analogy.
A metaphor is a subtle comparison of one word, relating to another.</span>
This is one full thought that doesn't run on for too long. The "overcome with joy" portion is the dependent clause that needs the other part "Mrs. Monroe told her husband the exciting news about her promotion" which is the independent clause. The independent clause could be its own sentence without the dependent clause, but not the other way around.
"Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. It ranges in scale from the subatomic to the cosmic. The term "nature" may refer to living plants and animals, geological processes, weather, and physics, such as matter and energy.