Intentional deviation from ordinary language, chosen to produce a rhetorical effect.
Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense.
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Examples for "figure"
Examples for "figure"
1In reality, given the generous qualifying regulations, quite sizeable movies often figure.
2Today's new figure is down from the 67 new cases reported yesterday.
3I've long given up trying to figure things out in China today.
4Jun Kwang-hoon is a political figure -a far right political icon.
5But the authors note the figure will vary from year to year.
1The research found young players were particularly vulnerable to body image issues.
2Yet such detentions pose a public image problem for the security forces.
3One told The Observer: 'New Zealand has historically had an image problem.
4Great for the shelter, great for my image and great for business.
5Self-rated health was not associated with body image concern or weight satisfaction.
1However, this standard Silicon Valley trope was met with instantaneous backlash Monday.
2But the SBW trope does not allow for that type of flexibility.
3In a different and unintended sense, the trope couldn't be more apt.
4I can't think of any other director who has employed this trope.
5Dunne's enthusiasm for a renaissance isn't just some sort of dramatic trope.
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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