Questions about the Figures of Speech poster

What’s on the Figures of Speech poster?

A 6-row table: Figure · Pattern. The figures that earn their keep in speech. Anaphora — Same opening, repeated; Antithesis — Balanced opposites; Chiasmus — A B, then B A; Tricolon — Three parallel parts; Metaphor — One thing named as another; Praeteritio — Raising it by refusing to. Figures are load-bearing in speech because listeners cannot re-read. Repetition and balance are how a spoken argument stays followable.

Who is the Figures of Speech poster for?

Figures of Speech belongs to the Communications & Media section rather than to a school year, because humanities is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning rhetoric & argument can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Figures of Speech poster?

When a sentence is correct and true and nobody remembers it. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Figures of Speech belongs on the wall where that humanities work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Figures of Speech?

Kinds of Claim, The Five Canons and Deduction & Induction sit alongside Figures of Speech in the Communications & Media section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Kinds of ClaimThe Five CanonsDeduction & Induction

Is the Figures of Speech poster free to download and print?

Yes. Figures of Speech downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Communications & Media section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Figures of Speech poster print at?

Figures of Speech is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Figures of Speech loses nothing.Printing guide