This class is based on the criterion of teaching elementary school children in the Spanish language, who will learn to use the following punctuation marks in an appropriate way, respecting the learning criteria that may exist in English or in other languages.
Before describing the various examples I want to tell you an anecdote when I was a student that happened to me last year when I went to buy shoes with my parents and where we came to the store to buy, it was very big and had a large sentence written under the name that he said: "We dress our feet using our heads", this caught my attention, maybe we thought of many things we could literally think, how do I use my head to dress my feet? This describes the creative way to use the imagination to show your products when selling a brand using the figure to talk, perhaps in an exaggerated way.
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What are the literary figures?
They are linguistic resources, which writers use to beautify their works, and thus give more expressiveness to the text.
Classification:
They are classified into two groups:
The figures of form or diction: They are those that vary the external form of language, that is to say, the way in which the words are distributed.
The figures of meaning or thought: It is where the meaning of the words is modified since they will sign another reality.
There are more than 50 literary figures, we will see the most used and the most important.
Shape or diction figures;
Hyperbaton
It consists of altering the logical or normal order of the sentence
Observe the following verses, Example:
A) "The dark swallows on your balcony will return their nests to hang"
Logical or normal order of the sentence:
a) "The dark swallows will once again hang their nests on your balcony"
B) "To God, thank you"
Logical or normal order of the sentence:
b) "Thank God"
C) "Of green willows, there is a thicket"
Logical or normal order of the sentence:
c) "There is a thicket of green willows"
Pun
Consists of repeating a phrase in the opposite direction to produce a change of direction.
Example:
A) "There is no way for peace"
"The peace is the way"
B) "You always have to feel what is said"
""You have to always say what you feel"
The alliteration
It consists of repeating a sound several times
Example:
A) "In the silence, you could only hear the whispering of the bees that sounded"
Here I show the "s" simulating the buzz of a bee;
B) "Of fleeting, fugitive endings, melted into your founded skin"
Here I show the "F"
Anaphora
It is the repetition of one or more words intentionally, at the beginning of sentences or verses.
1st Example of an anaphora:
While the waves of light to the kiss throbbed on;
While the sun the torn clouds of fire and gold seen;
While the art in your lap carries perfumes and harmonies;
While there is in the world spring there will be poetry!
Here we observe the repetition of the word "while"
Poetry of the writer Gustavo Adolfo Bécquersource
Early morning rose early
Early you are hovering on the ground
Here we observe the repetition of the word "Early"
Poem by Miguel Hernández. source
Polysyndeton
It is when we get a link that they are repeated several times in our verses.
Example:
A) Time licks and gnaws and polishes and stains and bites.
B) There are a palace and a river and a lake and an old bridge,
And fountains with moss and grass
High and silence ... silence
Poem by Juan Ramón Jiménezsource
Asyndeton:
In this figure, the conjugations or links are omitted or eliminated in a sentence that is the opposite of what is done in the polysyndeton figures.
Example:
A) "Man is more than white, more than mulatto, more than black."
Verse by José Martí.
B) "On land, in smoke, in the dust, in shadow, in nothing.
Verso de Góngorasource
Source of information
- http://andoverlibrary.org/uncategorized/literary-figures-black-history-month/
- https://www.deviantart.com/chemartist/art/Literary-figures-62377130
