Intentional deviation from ordinary language, chosen to produce a rhetorical effect.
Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense.
1Oh, well, I was simply using a figure of speech, High Lord.
2Indicate the figure of speech used in each of the following sentences:
3This keeping of distance was no mere figure of speech for her.
4That is no mere figure of speech: it is an actual truth.
5He had not thought it was more than a figure of speech.
6Why did I have to go and choose that figure of speech?
7And in his delirious fancy this figure of speech became a reality.
8Personification is a figure of speech in constant use by all poets.
9To call it the Queen's pardon was a simple figure of speech.
10Even the smaller Bunkers knew that this was a figure of speech.
11That figure of speech is an Americanism I carefully committed to memory.
12Alas, the mariner's boast of gold had been a figure of speech.
13As a figure of speech, however, it meant something quite different.
14Until now he had thought that that was simply a figure of speech.
15After a moment, though, he realized Reggie had used a figure of speech.
16Thus she cries, not in rhetorical figure of speech, but in deep conviction.
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