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What figure of speech is this? “Homes to the homeless, jobs to the jobless”
What is the name of this figure of speech?Figure of Speech vs. Figure of ThoughtWhat figure of speech is it when we say “This meat is swimming in fat.”?What figure of speech takes the form “[concrete noun] of [abstract noun]” (non-anthropomorphic)Figure of speech: Repeated synonymsWhat is this figure of speech called?What figure of speech is the following statement?Slang or figure or speech?A figure of speech combining two phrasesThe Forbidden Fruit : Figure of speech
What figure of speech is this?
Homes to the homeless,
jobs to the jobless
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Homes to the homeless,
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parallelism, also known as parallel structure or parallel construction, is a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure. (Wikipedia)
– FumbleFingers
2 hours ago
I think Wikipedia's first example is a much better one: "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." — Winston Churchill
– FumbleFingers
2 hours ago
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Homes to the homeless,
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parallelism, also known as parallel structure or parallel construction, is a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure. (Wikipedia)
– FumbleFingers
2 hours ago
I think Wikipedia's first example is a much better one: "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." — Winston Churchill
– FumbleFingers
2 hours ago
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parallelism, also known as parallel structure or parallel construction, is a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure. (Wikipedia)
– FumbleFingers
2 hours ago
I think Wikipedia's first example is a much better one: "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." — Winston Churchill
– FumbleFingers
2 hours ago
1
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parallelism, also known as parallel structure or parallel construction, is a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure. (Wikipedia)
– FumbleFingers
2 hours ago
parallelism, also known as parallel structure or parallel construction, is a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure. (Wikipedia)
– FumbleFingers
2 hours ago
I think Wikipedia's first example is a much better one: "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." — Winston Churchill
– FumbleFingers
2 hours ago
I think Wikipedia's first example is a much better one: "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." — Winston Churchill
– FumbleFingers
2 hours ago
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The online Oxford Dictionary offers as the meaning of figure of speech:-
a word or phrase used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or vivid effect.
Your examples are not really examples of figures of speech on that definition. So I tried the Oxford Companion to the English Language. This tells us that the phrase is a translation of Latin figura orationis, which is in turn the Latin version of the Greek σχημα της λεξεως (schēma tēs lexeōs). It defines the term more broadly as:-
a rhetorical device that achieves a special effect by using words in distinctive ways, such as alliteration, in which the same sound, especially an initial consonant is repeated ... and hyperbole, as in the phrase tons of money ('a great deal of money').
And on it goes, citing thirty two more! One that is not cited is FumbleFingers' parallelism, but it is certainly appropriate to the OP's example. It includes a lot of repetition, not of words so much as of structure. So it has two parts of identical metric value (tum-ti-ti tum-tum), which happen to constitute the final two feet of the hexameter. It also involves repetition of the words home and job. More to the point, it uses contrast ) between home and its (sort of) opposite homeless. These are all parallel elements, so I am only really confirming what FumbleFingers has suggested. Perhaps also, we could there is a kind of anaphora, which is only the Greek work for repetition, which is only the Latin for ... repetition.
So it is a very good slogan, because it is simple, direct and memorable.
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The online Oxford Dictionary offers as the meaning of figure of speech:-
a word or phrase used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or vivid effect.
Your examples are not really examples of figures of speech on that definition. So I tried the Oxford Companion to the English Language. This tells us that the phrase is a translation of Latin figura orationis, which is in turn the Latin version of the Greek σχημα της λεξεως (schēma tēs lexeōs). It defines the term more broadly as:-
a rhetorical device that achieves a special effect by using words in distinctive ways, such as alliteration, in which the same sound, especially an initial consonant is repeated ... and hyperbole, as in the phrase tons of money ('a great deal of money').
And on it goes, citing thirty two more! One that is not cited is FumbleFingers' parallelism, but it is certainly appropriate to the OP's example. It includes a lot of repetition, not of words so much as of structure. So it has two parts of identical metric value (tum-ti-ti tum-tum), which happen to constitute the final two feet of the hexameter. It also involves repetition of the words home and job. More to the point, it uses contrast ) between home and its (sort of) opposite homeless. These are all parallel elements, so I am only really confirming what FumbleFingers has suggested. Perhaps also, we could there is a kind of anaphora, which is only the Greek work for repetition, which is only the Latin for ... repetition.
So it is a very good slogan, because it is simple, direct and memorable.
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The online Oxford Dictionary offers as the meaning of figure of speech:-
a word or phrase used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or vivid effect.
Your examples are not really examples of figures of speech on that definition. So I tried the Oxford Companion to the English Language. This tells us that the phrase is a translation of Latin figura orationis, which is in turn the Latin version of the Greek σχημα της λεξεως (schēma tēs lexeōs). It defines the term more broadly as:-
a rhetorical device that achieves a special effect by using words in distinctive ways, such as alliteration, in which the same sound, especially an initial consonant is repeated ... and hyperbole, as in the phrase tons of money ('a great deal of money').
And on it goes, citing thirty two more! One that is not cited is FumbleFingers' parallelism, but it is certainly appropriate to the OP's example. It includes a lot of repetition, not of words so much as of structure. So it has two parts of identical metric value (tum-ti-ti tum-tum), which happen to constitute the final two feet of the hexameter. It also involves repetition of the words home and job. More to the point, it uses contrast ) between home and its (sort of) opposite homeless. These are all parallel elements, so I am only really confirming what FumbleFingers has suggested. Perhaps also, we could there is a kind of anaphora, which is only the Greek work for repetition, which is only the Latin for ... repetition.
So it is a very good slogan, because it is simple, direct and memorable.
answered 15 mins ago
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The online Oxford Dictionary offers as the meaning of figure of speech:-
a word or phrase used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or vivid effect.
Your examples are not really examples of figures of speech on that definition. So I tried the Oxford Companion to the English Language. This tells us that the phrase is a translation of Latin figura orationis, which is in turn the Latin version of the Greek σχημα της λεξεως (schēma tēs lexeōs). It defines the term more broadly as:-
a rhetorical device that achieves a special effect by using words in distinctive ways, such as alliteration, in which the same sound, especially an initial consonant is repeated ... and hyperbole, as in the phrase tons of money ('a great deal of money').
And on it goes, citing thirty two more! One that is not cited is FumbleFingers' parallelism, but it is certainly appropriate to the OP's example. It includes a lot of repetition, not of words so much as of structure. So it has two parts of identical metric value (tum-ti-ti tum-tum), which happen to constitute the final two feet of the hexameter. It also involves repetition of the words home and job. More to the point, it uses contrast ) between home and its (sort of) opposite homeless. These are all parallel elements, so I am only really confirming what FumbleFingers has suggested. Perhaps also, we could there is a kind of anaphora, which is only the Greek work for repetition, which is only the Latin for ... repetition.
So it is a very good slogan, because it is simple, direct and memorable.
answered 15 mins ago
TuffyTuffy
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The online Oxford Dictionary offers as the meaning of figure of speech:-
a word or phrase used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or vivid effect.
Your examples are not really examples of figures of speech on that definition. So I tried the Oxford Companion to the English Language. This tells us that the phrase is a translation of Latin figura orationis, which is in turn the Latin version of the Greek σχημα της λεξεως (schēma tēs lexeōs). It defines the term more broadly as:-
a rhetorical device that achieves a special effect by using words in distinctive ways, such as alliteration, in which the same sound, especially an initial consonant is repeated ... and hyperbole, as in the phrase tons of money ('a great deal of money').
And on it goes, citing thirty two more! One that is not cited is FumbleFingers' parallelism, but it is certainly appropriate to the OP's example. It includes a lot of repetition, not of words so much as of structure. So it has two parts of identical metric value (tum-ti-ti tum-tum), which happen to constitute the final two feet of the hexameter. It also involves repetition of the words home and job. More to the point, it uses contrast ) between home and its (sort of) opposite homeless. These are all parallel elements, so I am only really confirming what FumbleFingers has suggested. Perhaps also, we could there is a kind of anaphora, which is only the Greek work for repetition, which is only the Latin for ... repetition.
So it is a very good slogan, because it is simple, direct and memorable.
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parallelism, also known as parallel structure or parallel construction, is a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure. (Wikipedia)
– FumbleFingers
2 hours ago
I think Wikipedia's first example is a much better one: "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." — Winston Churchill
– FumbleFingers
2 hours ago