Figures

A man was drowning deep into a busy sea

Where traders always traverse with their boat for business

And many came to see.

Among eyewitnesses were prominent speech figures

Known all over the world with different statures.

Hyperbole exclaimed: “That man could swallow the sea!”

Litotes replied: “He definitely is not in a pleasant situation!”

Personification described: “The sea is probably washing away his sins.”

Simile crawled in: “He wails like a dying mermaid being swallowed by a shark.”

Metaphor confirmed: “He surely is a big fish in the body of the sea of sharks.”

Oxymoron lamented: “What a silent scream for help in the middle of light heavy body of waters.”

Paradox commented: “Such is life, today you are found; tomorrow, you are bond.”

Onomatopoeia burst: “I hear the heart banging out of his chest and the waters slaps his face with splashes.”

Irony comes in on a lighter note: “The man is swimming just fine.”

Sarcasm mocked: “Swimming just fine indeed!”

Rhyme Scheme showed up:

“If only the man could soar

In spite of the sea’s roar

This time of dour

Would end in merry victory hour!”

As Rhythm observes the beats of the sea, Assonance muttered: “The loud beat and spree of the sea really engulfed the man’s plea indeed.”

Alliteration was concerned: “The sea sees and seizes the senior sage of Sapele town since seven when the man came to fish by the sea shores.”

Anaphora was cliched in his words: “He came, he saw, he was conquered.”

Apostrophe shouted at the sea at the sea: “You wicked beast!”

Allusion supported: “He found himself swept away in the turbulent currents of life like a man drowning in the sea of sorrows, desperately reaching out for a lifeline of hope.”

Bathos imagined: “The shark will start with his fingers, then to his limbs, down to the body and finally the head.”

Climax imagined otherwise: “So the shark will target the head first.”

Repetition kept wailing: “Help him! help him! just help him!”

But like others, Pun was busy catching fun: “The drowning man helplessly waves at the waves one last time.”

Imagery stands in as the media and pictured the scene.

Reporting on the media after the incident, Imagery narrates: “A man drowns in the middle of the dead sea before anyone could come see and rescue him!”