respected teachers we got a lot of questions in english based on figures of speech i thus request you to plz provide me the main figures of speech with examples.

for example

• antithesis
• rhetorical question
• metonymy
• transferred epithet
• inversion
• climax

etc. please answer soon my exam is in 10 days and i have to revise also.

The explanation of the following figures of speech are as follows:

1. Antithesis: Antithesis means something in direct contrast. It is the direct or exact opposite of something.

Instance of the same is: Joy is the antithesis of sorrow.

2. Rhetorical Question: A statement that is formulated as a question which is asked to make a point instead of an expectation of a reply. For example: In Julius Caeasr, Antony exclaims, Here was a Caesar! when comes such another? 

3. Metonymy: A figure of speech in which an object or a concept is not called by its own name but, is substituted with something that is closely related to it. For example: "A pen is mightier than a sword".

4. Transferred Epithet: Transferred epithet, is the trope or rhetorical device in which a modifier, usually an adjective, is applied to the "wrong" word in the sentence. The word whose modifier is thus displaced can either be actually present in the sentence, or it can be implied logically. The effect often stresses the emotions or feelings of the individual by expanding them on to the environment. 

5. Inversion: Inversion means the reversal of a normal order or sequence of words.

Instance of the same is: In Xanadu did Kubla Khan, A stately pleasure dome decree 

6. Climax: When a series of statements or ideas in an ascending order of intensity are presented, then the final statement in such a series becomes the climax.