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 "
1 In reality, given the generous qualifying regulations, quite sizeable movies often figure .
2 Today's new figure is down from the 67 new cases reported yesterday.
3 I've long given up trying to figure things out in China today.
4 Jun Kwang-hoon is a political figure -a far right political icon.
5 But the authors note the figure will vary from year to year.
1 The research found young players were particularly vulnerable to body image issues.
2 Yet such detentions pose a public image problem for the security forces.
3 One told The Observer: 'New Zealand has historically had an image problem.
4 Great for the shelter, great for my image and great for business.
5 Self-rated health was not associated with body image concern or weight satisfaction.
1 However, this standard Silicon Valley trope was met with instantaneous backlash Monday.
2 But the SBW trope does not allow for that type of flexibility.
3 In a different and unintended sense, the trope couldn't be more apt.
4 I can't think of any other director who has employed this trope .
5 Dunne's enthusiasm for a renaissance isn't just some sort of dramatic trope .
1 Oh, well, I was simply using a figure of speech , High Lord.
2 Indicate the figure of speech used in each of the following sentences:
3 This keeping of distance was no mere figure of speech for her.
4 That is no mere figure of speech : it is an actual truth.
5 He had not thought it was more than a figure of speech .
6 Why did I have to go and choose that figure of speech ?
7 And in his delirious fancy this figure of speech became a reality.
8 Personification is a figure of speech in constant use by all poets.
9 To call it the Queen's pardon was a simple figure of speech .
10 Even the smaller Bunkers knew that this was a figure of speech .
11 That figure of speech is an Americanism I carefully committed to memory.
12 Alas, the mariner's boast of gold had been a figure of speech .
13 As a figure of speech , however, it meant something quite different.
14 Until now he had thought that that was simply a figure of speech .
15 After a moment, though, he realized Reggie had used a figure of speech .
16 Thus she cries, not in rhetorical figure of speech , but in deep conviction.
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