What is your favorite figure of speech?

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This reminds me of my school days. As an art student and a linguist, the first time we were taught Figure of speech, we loved it like heaven. They are all packed with beautiful expressions. Some will make you laugh, while another will express a sentence and make you imagine the view of what is abstract.

Irony is a very powerful figure of speech used mainly to take about the opposite. Can't imagine why @rasamuel love it... Funny people use that a lot. My younger brother did something like that one day. I served him some food and he said" This is too much. I cant finish it. Of cos I knew what he meant but I didn't respond. Before I could say jack Robinson, the plate was empty and he started laughing. I had to give him more. I guess you are one of them. Lol.

My best figure of speech is HYPERBOLE. I love hyperbole more than my Head. I can stay 30 days without food and water listening to sentences full of hyperbole.

Hyperbole creates a strong feeling or impression about something. The way some things are exaggerated makes me feel like hey See lies!!!

Just like my above sentences. Can I really stay 30 days without Food and water?

Is hyperbole more precious than my head?

They are just a way of expressing how much I love this figure of speech.

If I say : The wine drank at Steem Fest is enough to float a boat from France to India. Please how many bottles of wine will fill the ocean? Can that be possible? Obviously not, but it is sure that a lot of wine was drank. Too much to be estimated. Its like making a mountain out of a mole hill.

However, one more thing I like about HYPERBOLE is that other figure of speech can be removed from its sentences. For example

@Rasamuel's answer to my question is as long as River Nile.

What is River Nile? It is the longest river in the whole world. Here, I am just trying to convey a message about how long his answer was, meaning his answer is the longest of all answers to my question.

In the sentence, there is a SIMILIE.

AS LONG AS RIVER NILE is a similie.

It is a comparison between the lenght of the answer to my question and River Nile.

Two figure of speech in one sentence.

Permit me to write further please. I will also like to mention another one I like because the way the sentence is structured is always sweet to my hearing. It's called ALLITERATION. The repetition of consonant sound in a sentence. E.g

Father Francis fried fresh Fish for Forty Four Fathers from France.

It sounds sweet and nice. The consonant F is repeatedly pronounced in the sentence which is a form of alliteration called SIBILANCE. I learnt about ALLITERATION when I was a kid. My mum taught us Peter Pipper.

It goes thus.

Peter Pipper picked a peck of pickled pepper. A peck of pickled pepper Peter Pipper picked. If Peter Pipper picked a peck of pickled pepper, where is the peck of pickled pepper Peter Pipper picked?

I never knew anything like figure of speech then, but I always recite peter Pipper to my friends. However , when I came to know about it more, we formed ours as students. I will never forget this.

Baba Bola born Bola before Bola born Bose..

Bola and Bose is a name of a person and Baba means father.

Meaning : Bola's father gave birth to Bola before Bola gave birth to Bose.

This was formed by students as their own funny and local alliteration. Any Nigerian student should know this.

Its nice having this great moment to talk about my favourite figure of speech. Its fun.

Thanks.

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