This page was created as part of a collaboration to collect figures of speech from the book Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, for an English class. The project was completed in June 2004, but these pages will remain on the site in case someone finds them to be of use.
Welcome to the English Great Expectations Figure of Speech Gathering Site. Thanks to everyone for their contributions. And thanks, Sarah, for the research. Between all of us, we should be able to make this simple. --Nathan
For those like me who are still working on this project, the complete list (in no particular order) is as follows, 13 in all.
Oxymoron
Symbolism
Synecdoche (sp?)
Metonymy
Antithesis
Hyperbole
Simile
Irony (3 types)
Dramatic
Verbal
Situational
Metaphor
Personification
Synesthesia
My list says that's all of them, but somehow I seem to remember more--like paradox, and others. Post if I forgot some.
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From GE:
yes
Comments:
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Submitted by Anthony on Tuesday, January 24th 2012 - 08:15:54 AM. Entry # 73
From GE:
yes
Comments:
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Submitted by Allen on Thursday, October 20th 2011 - 12:46:04 PM. Entry # 72
From GE:
yes
Comments:
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Submitted by Haley on Friday, September 23rd 2011 - 10:09:10 AM. Entry # 71
From GE:
yes
Comments:
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Submitted by Samuel on Friday, March 18th 2011 - 10:35:36 PM. Entry # 70
From GE:
yes
Comments:
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Submitted by DeEtte on Friday, February 4th 2011 - 11:58:50 AM. Entry # 69
From GE:
yes
Comments:
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Submitted by Johanna on Tuesday, August 10th 2010 - 01:57:23 PM. Entry # 68
From GE:
yes
Comments:
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Submitted by George on Monday, May 24th 2010 - 03:39:53 PM. Entry # 67
Submitted by Trinity on Monday, December 1st 2008 - 05:44:34 AM. Entry # 66
Comments:
Piper, sorry about that. I when I moved my page, I accidently set up the new page to redirect back to itself every few seconds. That's what you were seeing, but I fixed it now.
Submitted by Nathan on Wednesday, June 9th 2004 - 10:43:09 AM. Entry # 65
Type of Figure:
None
From GE:
No
Page/Source:
---
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
I don't know who else is actually doing this on Sunday evening, or who may not have completed it still, other than me, but here are what I've found so far. Too, many, commas.
Submitted by Jeromy on Sunday, June 6th 2004 - 07:09:06 PM. Entry # 64
Type of Figure:
Situational Irony
From GE:
yes
Page/Source:
370
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"Curious to know how the old gentleman stood informed concerning the reputation of Mr. Jaggers, I roared that name at him. He threw me into the greatest confusion by laughing heartily and replying in a very sprightly manner..."
Submitted by Jeromy on Sunday, June 6th 2004 - 07:07:17 PM. Entry # 63
Type of Figure:
Synethsesia
From GE:
yes
Page/Source:
604
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"The June weather was delicious."
Comments:
I wish.
Submitted by Jeromy on Sunday, June 6th 2004 - 07:04:43 PM. Entry # 62
Type of Figure:
Sybolism
From GE:
yes
Page/Source:
605
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
Top paragraph about Joe's hammer.
Comments:
The lack of the hammer's ringing could represent a feeling that something's nothing quite right.
Submitted by Jeromy on Sunday, June 6th 2004 - 07:04:03 PM. Entry # 61
Type of Figure:
Synethsesia
From GE:
yes
Page/Source:
367
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"...in a tone drier than any sawdust."
Submitted by Jeromy on Sunday, June 6th 2004 - 07:03:10 PM. Entry # 60
Type of Figure:
Oxymoron
From GE:
yes
Page/Source:
382
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
Dreadfully fond.
Submitted by Jeromy on Sunday, June 6th 2004 - 07:00:37 PM. Entry # 59
Type of Figure:
Simile
From GE:
yes
Page/Source:
294
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"The whole had a slovenly confined and sleepy look, like a cage for a human dormouse."
Submitted by Jeromy on Sunday, June 6th 2004 - 06:59:50 PM. Entry # 58
Type of Figure:
Simile
From GE:
yes
Page/Source:
372
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
Like a boy's kite
Submitted by Jeromy on Sunday, June 6th 2004 - 06:58:02 PM. Entry # 57
Type of Figure:
Simile
From GE:
yes
Page/Source:
364
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"...then gathered up his coat-tails, as he had gathered up the subject..."
Submitted by Jeromy on Sunday, June 6th 2004 - 06:57:15 PM. Entry # 56
Type of Figure:
Personification
From GE:
yes
Page/Source:
606
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"...best husband in the world."
Comments:
Sounds like something you'd see on a Tshirt.
Submitted by Jeromy on Sunday, June 6th 2004 - 06:54:59 PM. Entry # 55
Type of Figure:
Personification
From GE:
yes
Page/Source:
367
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
I could have posted a newspaper in his mouth, he made it so wide after saying this.
Submitted by Jeromy on Sunday, June 6th 2004 - 06:54:09 PM. Entry # 54
Type of Figure:
Hyperbole
From GE:
yes
Page/Source:
218
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
Something about groceries and jam.
Submitted by Jeromy on Sunday, June 6th 2004 - 06:52:24 PM. Entry # 53
Type of Figure:
Personification
From GE:
yes
Page/Source:
612
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"The silvery mist was touched with the first rays of the moonlight, and the same rays touched the tears that dropped from her eyes."
Comments:
Moonlight don't really touch nothin.
Submitted by Jeromy on Sunday, June 6th 2004 - 06:51:25 PM. Entry # 52
Type of Figure:
Personification
From GE:
yes
Page/Source:
365
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"...the two iron faces looked, when my eyes strayed up to them, as if they had come to a crisis in their suspended attention, and were going to sneeze."
Submitted by Jeromy on Sunday, June 6th 2004 - 06:48:46 PM. Entry # 51
Type of Figure:
Personification
From GE:
yes
Page/Source:
361
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"...and Time went on, as he has a way of doing..."
Submitted by Jeromy on Sunday, June 6th 2004 - 06:45:55 PM. Entry # 50
Type of Figure:
synethsia...wow i spelled that wrong!
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
Source: Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson, in "I Heard a Fly Buzz-When I Died," uses a color
to describe a sound, the buzz of a fly with blue, uncertain stumbling
buzz.
Source: http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Schemes_n_Tropes.pdf “The scent of the rose
rang like a bell through the garden”
Source: http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Schemes_n_Tropes.pdf “I caressed the darkness
with cool fingers”
Submitted by la di dahhhh on Thursday, June 3rd 2004 - 05:08:32 PM. Entry # 48
"...decree came as a great beacon light of hope..."
"It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity"
"...America has defaulted on this promissory not insofar as her citizens of color are concerned."
"...until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream."
Submitted by blaaaa on Thursday, June 3rd 2004 - 01:42:12 PM. Entry # 46
Type of Figure:
antithesis
Page/Source:
http://www.actx.edu/~matney_jp/kingspech.htm
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"I have a dream that... the sons of former slaves and sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood."
"I have a dream that one day, even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice."
"We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote."
Comments:
bla
Submitted by sarah on Thursday, June 3rd 2004 - 01:41:15 PM. Entry # 45
Type of Figure:
metaphor
Page/Source:
http://www.actx.edu/~matney_jp/kingspech.htm
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"...to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice."
"Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination."
"...lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity."
"... Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land."
"...America has given the Negro people a bad check, which has come back marked ‘insufficient funds'."
"...to cash this check...a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and security of justice."
"...or take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism."
"Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice."
"...the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood."
"This sweltering summer of the Negroes legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality."
"...who stand on the threshold which leads into the palace of justice."
"Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred."
"...jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood."
"...in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification."
Comments:
so uh... i just find website and copy and paste.....
damn- i should have looked in the book more...
Submitted by sarah on Thursday, June 3rd 2004 - 01:40:13 PM. Entry # 44
Type of Figure:
THANKS
From GE:
No
Comments:
WOW, Sarah. Thanks for all the work on that. I put a list on the top of the page, if you're still around and still needing it.
Submitted by Nathan on Wednesday, June 2nd 2004 - 08:51:09 PM. Entry # 43
Submitted by sarah on Wednesday, June 2nd 2004 - 05:47:25 PM. Entry # 37
Type of Figure:
synecdoche
Page/Source:
http://rhetorica.net/tropes.htm
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"Tom just bought a fancy new set of wheels."
Submitted by sarah on Wednesday, June 2nd 2004 - 05:45:38 PM. Entry # 36
Type of Figure:
personification
Page/Source:
http://rhetorica.net/tropes.htm
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"Integrity thumbs its nose a pomposity."
Submitted by sarah on Wednesday, June 2nd 2004 - 05:44:47 PM. Entry # 35
Type of Figure:
Metonymy
Page/Source:
http://rhetorica.net/tropes.htm
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
using "top brass" to refer to military officers
Submitted by sarah on Wednesday, June 2nd 2004 - 05:44:07 PM. Entry # 34
Type of Figure:
Oxymoron
Page/Source:
http://rhetorica.net/tropes.htm
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"Bill is a cheerful pessimist."
Comments:
uh..i dont have the list..i wonder if this is one of the types of Figure of Speeches.... lol
Submitted by sarah on Wednesday, June 2nd 2004 - 05:43:19 PM. Entry # 33
Type of Figure:
metaphor
Page/Source:
http://rhetorica.net/tropes.htm
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"Debt is a bottomless sea."
Submitted by sarah on Wednesday, June 2nd 2004 - 05:42:28 PM. Entry # 32
Type of Figure:
Irony
Page/Source:
http://rhetorica.net/tropes.htm
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"I just love scrubbing the floor."
Submitted by sarah on Wednesday, June 2nd 2004 - 05:41:10 PM. Entry # 31
Type of Figure:
hyperbole
Page/Source:
http://rhetorica.net/tropes.htm
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"I've told you a million times not to call me a liar!"
Submitted by sarah on Wednesday, June 2nd 2004 - 05:40:42 PM. Entry # 30
Type of Figure:
Antithesis
Page/Source:
http://rhetorica.net/tropes.htm
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"Americans in need are not strangers, the are citizens, not problems, but priorities."
Submitted by sarah on Wednesday, June 2nd 2004 - 05:40:03 PM. Entry # 29
From GE:
No
Comments:
Darn! I hadn't remembered that we go to class BEFORE the assembly!
Guess I'll actually have to finish it, then. (And stop messing with this web-page!)
Submitted by Nathan on Tuesday, June 1st 2004 - 09:46:47 PM. Entry # 28
From GE:
yes
Comments:
thank you nathan! I knew that we had an assembly, but i figured that he would take them if we have to go to first period before the assembly. Better safe than sorry :)
thanks again
Submitted by Brie on Tuesday, June 1st 2004 - 09:42:12 PM. Entry # 27
From GE:
no
Comments:
Brie-To my knowledge, we should have three of each, I dont know about explanations.
Not to get anyone's hopes up, but we don't have class on Wed, due to the assembly, so you will have to decide if Mr. J will expect them tomorrow or on Fri, when we next have class.
Submitted by Nathan on Tuesday, June 1st 2004 - 09:33:32 PM. Entry # 26
From GE:
yes
Comments:
HOW MANY OF EACH DO WE NEED? AND DO WE NEED EXPLANATIONS FOR EACH?
Submitted by Brie on Tuesday, June 1st 2004 - 09:18:23 PM. Entry # 25
Type of Figure:
symbolism
From GE:
yes
Page/Source:
p. 328
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
It struck me that Wemmick walked amoung the prisoners much as a gardener might walk amoung his plants
Submitted by Brie on Tuesday, June 1st 2004 - 09:05:08 PM. Entry # 24
Type of Figure:
oxymoron
From GE:
yes
Page/Source:
p.292
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
The "unqualified truth" is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistable.
Submitted by Brie on Tuesday, June 1st 2004 - 09:02:20 PM. Entry # 23
Type of Figure:
simile
From GE:
yes
Page/Source:
p 410
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"assisted by an animated rag-bag which she called her niece."
Submitted by jess on Tuesday, June 1st 2004 - 03:57:03 PM. Entry # 22
Type of Figure:
metonomy
From GE:
yes
Page/Source:
p. 374
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"the Aged prepared such a haystack of buttered toast."
Comments:
i don't know if this works or not, but...
Submitted by jess on Tuesday, June 1st 2004 - 03:56:02 PM. Entry # 21
Type of Figure:
hyperbole
From GE:
yes
Page/Source:
p. 374
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"i thank you 10 thousand times."
Submitted by jess on Tuesday, June 1st 2004 - 03:54:50 PM. Entry # 20
Type of Figure:
symbolism
From GE:
yes
Page/Source:
p. 374
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"you hit the nail on the head."
Submitted by jess on Tuesday, June 1st 2004 - 03:54:00 PM. Entry # 19
Type of Figure:
metaphore
From GE:
yes
Page/Source:
p. 391
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"...watching Estella, outwatched many brighter insects..."
Comments:
the insects are gentleman
Submitted by jess on Tuesday, June 1st 2004 - 03:52:57 PM. Entry # 18
Type of Figure:
personification
From GE:
yes
Page/Source:
p. 395
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"furious gusts"
Submitted by jess on Tuesday, June 1st 2004 - 03:51:53 PM. Entry # 17
Type of Figure:
metaphore
From GE:
yes
Page/Source:
p. 330
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"he looked back, and nodded at this dead plant..."
Comments:
the dead plant is the colonal
Submitted by jess on Tuesday, June 1st 2004 - 03:51:04 PM. Entry # 16
Type of Figure:
metaphore
From GE:
yes
Page/Source:
p. 329
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"we walked throuh Wemmick's greenhouse."
Comments:
The greenhouse being the prison...
Submitted by jess on Tuesday, June 1st 2004 - 03:49:53 PM. Entry # 15
Type of Figure:
simile
From GE:
yes
Page/Source:
p. 328
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"Walk along the convicts like plants."
Submitted by jess on Tuesday, June 1st 2004 - 03:48:52 PM. Entry # 14
Type of Figure:
I'm Burried
From GE:
no
Comments:
as soon as i get unburried with chemistry and cwi and senior project stuff i actually plan on finding some of these to contribute. but hopefully he'll just let this go so cross your fingers and no one say anything.
Submitted by Jarred on Tuesday, May 25th 2004 - 09:33:32 PM. Entry # 13
Type of Figure:
Paradox
From GE:
yes
Page/Source:
asldkjfhxcm,vn...hehe
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"He (Joe) was a mild, good natured, sweet tempered, easy-going, foolish, dear fellow -- a sort of Hercules in strength, and also in weakness."
Submitted by Tara on Sunday, May 16th 2004 - 01:24:40 PM. Entry # 12
Type of Figure:
Metaphor
From GE:
yes
Page/Source:
Unknown...way to go Tara for not writing these down
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"Once more the mists were rising as I walked away. If they disclosed to me..."
Comments:
When Pip sees the rising mists, he is able to see clearly what's happening inside or going on around him.
Submitted by Tara on Sunday, May 16th 2004 - 01:23:04 PM. Entry # 11
Type of Figure:
Metonymy
From GE:
yes
Page/Source:
Not sure...didn't write it down- Sorry guys!
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"While we were comforting ourselves by the fire after our meal, the Jack--who was sitting in a corner and who had a bloated pair of shoes on..."
Comments:
The word Jack means a person who does odd jobs. A "jack" of all trades.
Submitted by Tara on Sunday, May 16th 2004 - 01:18:42 PM. Entry # 10
Type of Figure:
simile
From GE:
yes
Page/Source:
214
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"...whose expression seemed to have been imperfectly chipped out with a dull edged chisel."
Comments:
not sure- you might want to re-look that one
--The quote is right--Nathan
Submitted by sarah on Tuesday, May 11th 2004 - 10:46:15 PM. Entry # 9
Type of Figure:
simile
From GE:
yes
Page/Source:
255
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"he would always creep in shore like some uncomfortable amphibious creature."
Submitted by sarah on Tuesday, May 11th 2004 - 10:45:30 PM. Entry # 8
Type of Figure:
simile
From GE:
yes
Page/Source:
347
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"...so that he was actually in the air, like a booted cupid..."
Submitted by sarah on Tuesday, May 11th 2004 - 10:44:50 PM. Entry # 7
Type of Figure:
symbolism
From GE:
yes
Page/Source:
318
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"i am an old bird now, as has dared all manners of traps... not afraid to perch upon a scarecrow."
Submitted by SARAH on Tuesday, May 11th 2004 - 10:44:11 PM. Entry # 6
Type of Figure:
symbolism
From GE:
yes
Page/Source:
387
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"there was such a thing as daylight, but that it was made to be her enemy and dystroyer, and she must always turn against it..."
Comments:
IF ANY OF THESE ARE WRONG NATHAN....JUST TAKE THEM OFF OR SOMETHING..
Submitted by sarah on Tuesday, May 11th 2004 - 10:43:14 PM. Entry # 5
Type of Figure:
symbolism
From GE:
yes
Page/Source:
384
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"...I took her into this wretched breast when it was first bleeding from its wretched stabs..."
Submitted by sarah on Tuesday, May 11th 2004 - 10:41:45 PM. Entry # 4
Type of Figure:
Simile
From GE:
yes
Page/Source:
?
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"sensation was like being touched in the marrow with some pungent and searching acid"
Comments:
uses like--makes it a simile
Submitted by Nathan on Tuesday, May 4th 2004 - 11:41:32 PM. Entry # 3
Type of Figure:
Personification
From GE:
yes
Page/Source:
352
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"The very breadth of the beans and clover whispered to my heart."
Comments:
Beans and clover don't whisper, and their breadth certainly doesn't.
Submitted by Nathan on . Entry # 2
Type of Figure:
Welcome/Testing
From GE:
no
Quote/ Excerpt/ Example:
"This DreamBook works."
Comments:
The first thing I said after I saw this message. :)
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