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20 Examples Of Figures Of Speech In Pidgin English by jesais24(m): 5:13pm On Sep 22, 2018
Figures of speech in pidgin English

1. the man tall like palm tree: simile

2. see me see trouble: zeugma

3. hungry dey catch me: personification

4. I don hammer : idiom

5. yeye dey smell: metaphor

6. na which kain problem be this?: rhetorical question

7. I fit die ontop your matter:
hyperbole

8. you dey crase?: rhetorical question

9. you see wetin i dey talk: synaesthesia

10. the thing no bad sha: litotes,

11. she don get belle: euphemism

12. leave matter for Marthias : aliteration

13. e no go easy for ezekiel: assonance

14. I no gree, i no gree na im dey tear cloth: repetition

15. monkey dey work; baboon dey chop: antithesis

16. plaintain dey come (plaintain hawker): metonymy

17. how bodi? Synedoche

18. your story get k-leg: metaphor

19. Make I come dey go: paradox

20.
Child: Mommy where I go drop the plate?
Mother: Drop am for my head.
-sarcasm

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Re: 20 Examples Of Figures Of Speech In Pidgin English by qwertygeni: 10:57pm On Sep 22, 2018
Not bad. Impressive!!

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Re: 20 Examples Of Figures Of Speech In Pidgin English by PlayerMeji: 12:41am On Sep 23, 2018
Abey, teach me English jare!



jesais24:
Figures of speech in pidgin English

1. the man tall like palm tree: simile

2. see me see trouble: zeugma

3. hungry dey catch me: personification

4. I don hammer : idiom

5. yeye dey smell: metaphor

6. na which kain problem be this?: rhetorical question

7. I fit die ontop your matter:
hyperbole

8. you dey crase?: rhetorical question

9. you see wetin i dey talk: synaesthesia

10. the thing no bad sha: litotes,

11. she don get belle: euphemism

12. leave matter for Marthias : aliteration

13. e no go easy for ezekiel: assonance

14. I no gree, i no gree na im dey tear cloth: repetition

15. monkey dey work; baboon dey chop: antithesis

16. plaintain dey come (plaintain hawker): metonymy

17. how bodi? Synedoche

18. your story get k-leg: metaphor

19. Make I come dey go: paradox

20.
Child: Mommy where I go drop the plate?
Mother: Drop am for my head.
-sarcasm

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