Poets carefully use varied figures of speech to their writings or masterpieces to make them more convincing, more meaningful and more worth-reading. Little did we know, we also become poets in our own little ways and for that, everyone is not an exemption to the rule. It is maybe implied for many but for me, everyday situations have explicitly revealed that everything is like a network of connected dots of figures of speech.

How can I explain this? Let me give you different situations in each type of FS. It's your choice to continue reading this writing or to stop since some of the situations I'll be mentioning here might offend you. But, if you're brave and confident enough, the luxury is yours to enjoy every joy of fancy you can get in every detail written. After, you can actually give your own examples of situations in any of the figures of speech mentioned that you think are worth mentioning in the comment box. Let me start.

ONOMATOPOEIA.

• Truly, life is onomatopoeic. It is a big Bang!Bang! Bang! Life both hits us positively or negatively, either way, a realist would say we're being hit. There were moments that uplifted us the likes of career success or an employment and promotion in work, answered prayers like passing the board exams and graduating with bachelor degrees, and having a happy and united family or the likes. However, on the other side of the balance beam, life also hits us negatively. We cried because of too much sadness or we felt being shattered and all alone in fighting the depression that became not just our nightmares but our system since we lack support from our family and friends. We were bullied. We were hurt and often times neglected in crowded hallways. We became victims of unlawful things and sad, we became suicidal because we believed that at the very least, these sh*ts would end. Ooops! SPG.

SIMILE.

• We were all created in the likeness and image of God. No matter how cruel the world is and no matter how cruel we became, it is innate in us to forgive the people who hurt us and whom we hurt. It is also innate in us to find that inner peace God has showed us. Yes, some of us were derailed to the right path but at the end of the day, we were able to compose our selves back--mending the splintered pieces of us.

METAPHOR.

• Life is a stage. It has both entrances and exits where we are the actors and actresses in it. We mewled and puked when we were very young. Then , we became a whining school brat, became a lover, found a job, settled down and married. However, life would give us an age shift where we would experience second childishness before sans everything.

HYPERBOLE.

• We often exaggerate the simple things, thus, become very complicated. Human as we are, admit it or not, we have endless desires. We are not contented in what we have. We choose to improve each new day than yesterdays. We don't want to be stagnant. Life has become difficult since we exaggerated it like a hyperbole. However, there is a positive side in it. We see improvements everyday and we don't stagnate. Thus, it's okay to exaggerate things as long as we are responsible in dealing them.

PERSONIFICATION.

• We give human qualities to non-living things. We animate them. We love to sing and dance with the yellow wild flowers in the field while tossing and nodding their heads in the wind and we love to share our sentiments and love stories to the moon and stars. Don't you?

PARADOX.

• We always love a BITTERSWEET love story where we become WISE FOOLS in understanding the reasons that cannot explain or understand why it all happened the way it did. We often become a COMPULSIVE LIAR when it comes to our relationship though it brings us a HAPPY PAIN like a pain from a SUGAR-COATED KNIFE WOUND. Aren't these paradoxical??

IRONY.

• Life is full of ironic things whether we like it or not. I heard people complaining that there are many teachers who do not know how to teach, English majors who do not know the simple basic subject-verb agreement(little errors are inevitable, but too much is troublesome and sometimes fatal), traffic cops who were suspended of not paying their traffic tickets, policemen men who were caught of making things done in contrary to the law, lawmakers who do not know how to make and implement laws, dreamers but lazy. Sound offending right? Well I'm not pinpointing names, if it's not you, then probably guilt would not tickle your soul or this would not bother you anyway.

ANTITHESIS

• We all have SNOWHITE and the WICKED WITCH in our lives. Snowhite are those we can consider friends and comrades in making our dreams come true and wicked witch are those spoilers of our dreams. I hope we will choose to become snow white in someone else's life.

TAUTOLOGY.

• We need to SHOUT IT LOUD that we are born to become a phenomenal star. We should REITERATE AGAIN that we are intelligent in our own ways.

PUN.

• This is not a common type of figure of speech that our teachers taught us in school. Well, a pun is a joke that makes a play on words. Life is boring if we are too serious. We need jokes to break the monotony of a serious life. We need them for us to get away from too much stress. Let us choose to have a happy life. Who doesn't want it? Live! Laugh! and Breath!

SYNECDOCHE.

• This is very common to filipinos where one term represents the whole. It is only in the Philippines that "coke" represents any cola drinks. Colgate represents the whole toothpaste brand. Admit it, have you experienced buying toothpaste in the store with this silly conversation, "PALITON, PALITON KOG COLGATE NGA CLOSE UP?" Then the store owner replied you, "HALA, WA NA RA BA MI COLGATE NGA CLOSE UP, UNIQUE NA LANG NI." We laugh because we know it is not right. We laugh because we realized we are stupid that we were once victims of it.

CHIASMUS.

• We forget the things we want to remember and we remember the things we want to forget. Wow! What a very good example of chiasmus. We always forgot where we placed our keys. We forgot to bring our flashdrives in times we would use them. We forgot to eat our lunch when we were busy. We forgot to take meds when we were sick. We forgot to pray and thank when we received blessings from God. We forgot to set priorities in life. Aren't you? On the other hand, we always remember those embarrassing moments we tried to forget in oblivion when a certain thing reminded us of them. We remember the pains we buried 6 feet underground when we saw our exes. We remember the dead love story, the nightmares and the insecurities we once had.

EUPHEMISM.

• We always consider the words we say. We tend to choose the most pleasant way we can so we cannot offend somebody. Innate in us is the attitude of being considerate and being sensitive to someone's feelings. This is so me. How about you?

LITOTES.

• Litotes is where positive statements are expressed by negating two of its opposite expressions. Yes. We CANNOT DISAGREE more that we are not as YOUNG AS WE USED TO BE. Litotes indeed.

You have read them successfully. Life is like a masterpiece. It is beautified and enhanced by the author itself--and that is the very you. Like the poets, we should make use of these figures of speech to make our masterpiece more intricately meaningful. Be the best poet you can be... Live. Breath. and Laugh.

Love,
-junva31996-

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