Figures of Speech – Dysphemism
What is Dysphemism?
Dysphemism is the use of a harsh, more offensive word instead of one considered less harsh. Dysphemism is often contrasted with euphemism. Dysphemisms are generally used to shock or offend.
Examples:
These are examples of dysphemism:
- Snail mail for postal mail,
- Cancer stick in reference to a cigarette.
- Egghead for genius.
- Worm food for dead.
- Pig for policeman.
- Bullshit for lies.
- Dead tree edition for the paper version of a publication that can be found online
- Fag for homosexual man.
List of Figures of Speech in the English Language – Literary Devices |
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| Accumulation | Climax | Metalepsis |
| Adjunction | Dysphemism | Metaphor |
| Adnomination | Ellipsis | Metonymy |
| Alliteration | Euphemism | Simile |
| Allusion | Epigram | Synecdoche |
| Anaphora | Epiphora (or epistrophe) | Tautology |
| Antanaclasis | Hyperbole | Understatement |
| Anticlimax | Hypophora | Zeugma and syllepsis |
| Antiphrasis | Irony | |
| Antithesis | Litotes | |
| Apostrophe | Oxymoron | |
| Assonance | Personification | |
| Cataphora | Puns | |
| Chiasmus | Merism | |
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