About The Word Figure of speech

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Figure of speech

Figure of speech Meaning & Definition
Figure of speech Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Figure of speech?

[n] language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

Synonyms | Synonyms for Figure of speech: figure | image | trope

Related Terms | Find terms related to Figure of speech: adornment | alliteration | allusion | anacoluthon | anadiplosis | analogy | anaphora | anastrophe | antiphrasis | antithesis | antonomasia | apophasis | aporia | aposiopesis | apostrophe | beauties | catachresis | chiasmus | circumlocution | climax | colors | colors of rhetoric | conversion | ecphonesis | elegant variation | embellishment | embroidery | emphasis | exclamation | figure | fine writing | floridity | floridness | flourish | floweriness | flowers of speech | frill | gemination | hypallage | hyperbaton | hyperbole | inversion | irony | litotes | lushness | luxuriance | malapropism | meiosis | metaphor | metonymy | onomatopoeia | ornament | ornamentation | oxymoron | paregmenon | parenthesis | periphrasis | personification | pleonasm | preterition | prolepsis | purple patches | regression | repetition | sarcasm | simile | similitude | spoonerism | syllepsis | symploce | synecdoche | zeugma

See Also | exaggeration | hyperbole | irony | kenning | metaphor | metonymy | oxymoron | personification | prosopopoeia | rhetorical device | simile | synecdoche | zeugma

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