Meaning Figure of speech
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Figure of speechAn expressive, nonliteral use of language. Figures of speech include tropes (such as hyperbole, irony, metaphor, and simile) and schemes (anything involving the ordering and organizing of words—anapho [..]
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Figure of speechA Figure of Speech is where a word or words are used to create an effect, often where they do not have their original or literal meaning.If someone says that they are 'starving', they [..]
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Figure of speechany word or phrase that creates a "figure" in the mind of the reader by effecting an obvious change in the usual meaning or order of words, by comparing or identifying one thing with [..]
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Figure of speechA comparison in which something is pictured or figured in other more familiar terms. See simile and metaphor.
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Figure of speechA form of expression employed mainly in rhetoric and literary writing in which words or entire sentences are used in a way that deviates from conventional order or literal meaning to achieve an unusua [..]
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Figure of speech An expression or use of language, such as a metaphor, simile, personification, antithesis, etc., in which words are used in other than their literal sense to create a picture or image, or for other [..]
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Figure of speech
(idiomatic) A word or phrase that departs from straightforward, literal language.
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Figure of speechFigure of speech is a catch-all phrase that refers to the literary devices used in figurative language. Called tropes by some folks, figures of speech take meaning to another level (to the figurative, [..]
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