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secrets and many answers. ?Figurative speeches used in the text: (10 min.) ?v Personification ?v Simile and Metaphor ?Writing techniques: ?v Climax and Anticlimax Personification ? give human forms or feelings to animals, or life and personal attributes to inanimate objects, or to ideas and abstractions. ?. Time, you old gypsy man! Simile ? (the use of) an expression paring one thing with another, always including the words 39。as39。 or 39。like39。: ?The lines 39。She walks in beauty, like the night...39。 from Byron39。s poem contain a simile. ?…h(huán)er voice was like water bubbling from a silver jar. ?… as white as the foam of the sea… Metaphor: ?an expression which describes a person or object in a literary way by referring to something that is considered to possess similar characteristics to the person or object you are trying to describe: ?39。The mind is an ocean39。 and 39。the city is a jungle39。 are both metaphors. Climax ? derived from the Greek word “l(fā)adder,” implies the progression of thought at a uniform or almost uniform rate of significance or intensity ?. I came, I saw, I conquered. ? Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Anticlimax: ? stating one’s thoughts in a descending order of significance or intensity, often used to ridicule or satire. ?eg. 1. As a serious man, I loved Beethoven, Keats, and hot dogs. ? 2. For God, for America, for Yale. ? 3. You manage a business, stocks, bonds, people. And now you can manage your hair. Syntactic device ? Inversion ? …yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched. (for emphasis) ? …Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as ruby was the heart. ? … She passed through the grove like a shadow and like a shadow she sailed across the garden. ? Night after night have I sung of him.