FIGURES OF SPEECH

FIGURES OF SPEECH (RHETORICAL DEVICES)

1@ ANTIMETABOLE
♥ Life
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♥ Happiness
★ Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.
♥ Love
★ Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone elsecv who tells you not to do it.
♥ Marriage & Singlehood
★ Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
♥ Success
★ Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.

2 @ ANTITHESIS
♥ Life
★ Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
★ Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our lives, laughing at ..... ?????????
★ If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
♥ Happiness
★ You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
★ You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
★ (It's like Tolstoy said). Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
♥ Love
★ (When love is gone ?????) Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
♥ Marriage & Singlehood
★ Marriage is give and take. You'd  better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.
★ To marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
♥ Success (& failure)
★ Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.

 HYPOPHORAS
* (Do you) Know what's weird? Day by day nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.
* You know what charm is: getting the answer yes without even having asked any clear question / for it.

METAPHORS (definitions & descriptions)
♥ Life
★ Our life is what our thoughts make it.
♥ Happiness
★ Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
★ Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.
♥ Love
★ (It's like Tolstoy said). Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
★ Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
♥ Marriage & Singlehood
★ To marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
♥ Success & failure
★ Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.

@ OXIMORONS (PARADOX)
♥ Life
★ Dying is a part of life.
♥ Happiness
★
♥ Love
★ I love mankind. It's people I can't stand.
♥ Marriage & Singlehood
★ If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
♥ Success
★

@ PARALLELISM
♥ Life
★ From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
★ Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
♥ Happiness
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♥ Love
★
♥ Marriage & Singlehood
★
♥ Success
★

@ PUNS
♥ Life
★
♥ Happiness
★
♥ Love
★ You can't blame Gravity for falling in love.
♥ Marriage & Singlehood
★ Marriage is a three ring circus; engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering...
♥ Success
★

@ REPETITION (Anaphoras & alliterations)
♥ Life
★ Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
★ We love life, not because we are used to ............???????????????????????
♥ Happiness
★ (They say) a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
★ Happiness is a choice. Attitude is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.
★ Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
♥ Love
★
♥ Marriage & Singlehood
★
♥ Success
★

@ SIMILES
♥ Life
★ Studying neurobiology to understand humans is like studying ink to understand literature.
♥ Happiness
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♥ Love
★
♥ Marriage & Singlehood
★ Everyone is always saying hello to Bob. It’s like being married to a superstar!
♥ Success
★

@ GRAMMAR & STRUCTURES
♥ Life
★ As with any situation in life, for every pro there is definitely a con! As I see it, the consequences of owning a Ferrary are both marvelous and horrendous / positive and negative.
★ If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
★ We love life, not because we are used to ............???????????????????????
♥ Happiness
★ It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it. (ST)
♥ Love
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♥ Marriage & Singlehood
★ Waiting to marry means expending more time learning who you are and what you want.
♥ Success
★ Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.