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Examples of figure of speech


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The title refers both to 'hyperbolae' as geometric design and as a figureofspeech.
The syntax of "as" is the figureofspeech known as simile.
An oxymoron is a figureofspeech that combines two contradictory terms.
A metaphor is a "figureofspeech" in which a term is detached from what it normally designates and transferred, implicitly or by analogy, to another object.
All this is really figureofspeech.
That is not just a figureofspeech.
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And that is not a figureofspeech.
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It is no mere figureofspeech to say that.
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I hope he will accept that that was a figureofspeech.
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It is of no use talking and imagining that it is only a figureofspeech.
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That is not a mere figureofspeech: their health has been ruined.
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I am an orator, and you are not, and there is a well-known figureofspeech called hyperbole.
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I do not use it as a figureofspeech.
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I am using a figureofspeech to demonstrate the seriousness of the issue.
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I hope that it was a figureofspeech.
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That was perhaps a flowery figureofspeech.
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That was not claptrap; it was a figureofspeech, and it happens to be true.
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Nevertheless, allow me a reformulation that is not a figureofspeech.
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This is not said as a conventional figureofspeech, but as real congratulations for the excellence of the text.
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That, of course, is only a figureofspeech: one does not usually shear lambs.
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But there it was not merely a figureofspeech—it was actually taking place.
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I just used that as a figureofspeech.
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One can hardly improve on that well-known figureofspeech.
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Yes, on the same shelf, if we wish to use that figureofspeech.
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It is not a mere phrase, or a figureofspeech, when a postman talks about "going on duty".
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In this context, the endless calls for social dialogue are a rather surreal figureofspeech.
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To use a figureofspeech, cappuccino is not always good for us.
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That, after all, is only a figureofspeech.
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That was the reason for the choice of 500 years; it was not simply a figureofspeech.
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I am not sure whether that was a figureofspeech or a promise.
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I believe that that is not a figureofspeech, but that it correctly represents the facts.
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It is no mere figureofspeech to say that our security is kept under constant review.
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He ventured on a figureofspeech in connection with that game.
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That is not a figureofspeech.
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When in my profession we talk about "my learned friend" it is no mere figureofspeech in the forensic encounters of a lifetime, in the anfractuosities of political division.
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My figureofspeech expresses this perfectly.
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It has become a figureofspeech.
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However, clarity may also suffer from their use, as any figureofspeech introduces an ambiguity between literal and figurative interpretation.
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This usage is considered an optional figureofspeech; it is also in decline, and advised against by most journalistic style guides.
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As the vessel can not have had only five oars, the word must be a figureofspeech meaning something else.
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But is anything gained by taking a figureofspeech literally and converting analogy into identity?
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The figureofspeech is a metonymy of a metonymy.
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Interjection as a figureofspeech refers to the use of one word.
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It is a figureofspeech comparing two unlike things without using either like or as.
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The figureofspeech means doing things the wrong way round or with the wrong emphasis.
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The new figureofspeech refers to an existing one.
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A figureofspeech that gives human characteristics to inanimate objects, or represents an absent person as being present.
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Others understand a literal age of peace, but think the thousand years is a figureofspeech.
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It derives its title from the figureofspeech that a camel is a horse made by a committee.
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Metalepsis is a figureofspeech in which a word or a phrase from figurative speech is used in a new context.
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It is a figureofspeech and the counterpart of anaphora.
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With its associated metaphors, the figureofspeech has also been extended to atheism, e.g., coming out as an atheist.
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A figureofspeech where emphasis is achieved through exaggeration, independently or through comparison.
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A figureofspeech that compares unlike things, implying a resemblance between them.
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Using a judicial figureofspeech, he shows that the body, in law a person, in physics an ultimate component of matter, is indivisible.
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This figureofspeech is used eight times in the epic, with seven different metres as shown below.
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It is a figureofspeech that compares two or more things not using like or as.
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This is such a common literary device that it is almost never even noted as a figureofspeech.
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Unapologetic for the sign, he said the message was a figureofspeech.
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A figureofspeech is sometimes called a rhetorical figure or a locution.
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A figureofspeech which substitutes one word or phrase for another with which it is closely associated.
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These scams became widely known and now also have meaning as a common figureofspeech.
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In addition to its use in everyday speech, metonymy is a figureofspeech in some poetry and in much rhetoric.
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Sometimes, metaphor and metonymy may both be at work in the same figureofspeech, or one could interpret a phrase metaphorically or metonymically.
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It is a figureofspeech or discourse that is an incomplete sentence, consisting of an object or complement without the requisite subject.
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Idioms are a common type of figureofspeech.
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The title is a play on the figureofspeech, the blind leading the blind.
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In general, he finds that non-core words are associated with greater intensity and intimacy, as is greater use of figures of speech.
From this orderliness we can detect the social functions (rather than cognitive aspects) of the use of figures of speech in interaction.
The last line is an example of antimetabole, the figureofspeech in which two or more clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures.
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This term also refers to a figureofspeech in which an animal or inanimate object is ascribed human characteristics or is spoken of in anthropomorphic language.
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Poets' sensual reactions to figures of speech effectively serve as signposts for audiences that mark the boundaries between moral and ideological domains.
The title refers to the figureofspeech that a camel is a horse made by a committee, and refers to the final mural proposed by the parks department.
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It is used sometimes as a figureofspeech to represent something much sought after that may not even exist, or, at least, may not ever be found.
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Your conjunctions and your hyperboles are all mixed up with your syntax, and your figures of speech only fall between 10 and 20.
It is also this controversial assumption that enables us to understand figures of speech such as hyperbole or metaphors.
Apposition is a figureofspeech of the scheme type, and often results when the verbs (particularly verbs of being) in supporting clauses are eliminated to produce shorter descriptive phrases.
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It's a figureofspeech!
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A figureofspeech where a word that normally applies to one thing is used to designate another for the sake of creating a mental picture.
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This expression refers to figures of speech, that is, literary devices that embellish and beautify ordinary language.
Such figures of speech are part and parcel of the machinery of the language and seldom cause problems of understanding; nor do they usually disturb the basic meanings of words.
He should show some respect and not use such figures of speech.
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He finished with a splendid mixture of figures of speech and figures of arithmetic.
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We have had figures of speech about contracts and masters and servants and about horses and the momentum of cars going uphill.
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We use these figures of speech as though we were pot boilers.
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That is not cynicism—unless it is cynical to recognise that we are dealing with human beings and not simply with figures of speech.
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I often feel unhappy that my education has been in figures of arithmetic rather than in figures of speech.
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In the legal profession, various figures of speech have been used over time.
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He has a tendency to use malapropisms and misinterpret figures of speech.
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Moreover, in ancient biographies pupil and student are figures of speech designating the influence one poet may have exercised over another.
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His comic text was colourful and entertaining, using onomatopoeia, neologisms and other figures of speech, and led to some work being banned by the authorities.
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Figurative language is language using figures of speech.
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Similarly, modern slang and figures of speech are often used in these films.
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Interpretation according to the literal sense will take account of all figures of speech and literary forms found in the text.
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Figures of speech often provide emphasis, freshness of expression, or clarity.
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In this book of literary theory he classifies the figures of speech under ten main categories and various sub-categories.
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It is followed by the discussion about the "alankara" s (figures of speech), which continues till the end of the third chapter.
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The ancient sophists discussed and listed many figures of speech such as enthymeme and euphemism.
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Figures of speech are any artful patterning or arrangement of language.
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