"He bravely broached his boiling bloody breast" is an example of which figure of speech?
Alliteration is when two or more words that start with the same sound are used repeatedly in a phrase or a sentence. The repeated sound creates the alliteration, not the same letter. The example, "he bravely broached his boiling bloody breast" is considered an alliteration. It is an example used in William Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Act 5, scene 1.
There are 3 basic types of alliteration. They are general alliteration, consonance alliteration, and unvoiced alliteration. In general alliteration, it refers to the repetition of the initial sounds of a series of words. With consonance, it refers to the repeated consonant sounds at the beginning, middle, or end of a word. Unvoiced is the type that cannot be voiced or expressed in any sort of speech. For instance, some of the words at the beginning might be silent or mute but still, they contribute to the alliteration forms.
Personification occurs when a thing or abstraction is represented as a person, in literature or art, as an anthropomorphic metaphor.
Hyperbole is language that describes something as better or worse than it really is. It is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. In rhetoric, it is also sometimes known as auxesis.
The apostrophe is a punctuation mark; it is sometimes a diacritical mark. The apostrophe has three uses: 1) to form possessive nouns; 2) to show the omission of letters; and 3) to indicate plurals of letters, numbers, and symbols.
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