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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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