Figure of speech Definition & Meaning

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Figure of speech

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

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

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