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figure of speech
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figure of speech

Poetic, imaginative, or ornamental expression used for comparison, emphasis, or stylistic effect. These figures include euphemism, hyperbole, metaphor, metonymy, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, personification, pun, simile, synecdoche, and zeugma.

The list of such figures is usually based on one dating from discussions of literary and rhetorical style in Greece in the 5th century BC.



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This is not a slippage in meaning, but rather amplification, making use of what the rhetoricians called figurative speech, allegorical and metonymical in its forms.
Myths of Venice: The Figuration of a State by Dempsey, Charles / Renaissance Quarterly
When people tell stories or jokes or use anecdotes, analogies, rhetorical questions, and metaphors (or, for that matter, any other figurative speech before an audience), they not only become more animated, but also their voices have a refreshingly broad conversational range.
Using your voice in closing argument by Becton, Charles L. / Trial
And so I say, 'Panis est corpus' [bread is the body: the predication at issue] is a figurative speech speaking sacramentally; for it is a sacrament of his body" (450).
Language and History in the Reformation: Cranmer, Gardiner, and the ... by ANDERSON, JUDITH H. / Renaissance Quarterly
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