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:
<span>Synecdoche,
Anastrophe,
Anaphora,
Antonomasia,
Personification, Simile,
Analogy,
Metaphor,
Alliteration, Euphemism, Assonance, Idiom, Funny Metaphors, Jargon,
Double Negative,
Anadiplosis,
Appositive,
Enthymeme, Parallelism,<span>
Adjunction</span>,
Antithesis,
Apostrophe,
Climax,
Metonymy,
Oxymoron,
Litotes,
Paralipsis,
Hyperbole,
Onomatopoeia, Imagery, Symbol, Pun, Allegory,
Tautology,
Rhetoric<span>, </span>Zeugma,
Anticlimax, Consonance, Irony,
Polysyndeton, Rhetorical
Question,
Asyndeton,
Parenthesis,
Antimetabole,
Epistrophe,
Understatement,
Chiasmus,
Epithet
and False Analogy.</span>
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In the poem "Tattoo" by Gregg Shapiro reflect fact regarding the Holocaust survivors, the people that survived this event has effects lifelong, the narrator of “Tattoo” is talking about the distance between he and his father, how his father has this number in his arm and will not talk about, this is an internal conflict that was experienced for many families after Holocaust.
