Figure of Speech
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A Figure of Speech is a Rhetoric that ...
- See: Metaphor, Rhetoric, Metonomy Figure of Speech, Nominalization, Double Entendre, Scheme (Linguistics), Trope (Literature), Polysyndeton.
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2020
- (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/figure_of_speech Retrieved:2020-10-28.
- A figure of speech or rhetorical figure is an intentional deviation from ordinary language, chosen to produce a rhetorical effect. Figures of speech are traditionally classified into schemes, which vary the ordinary sequence or pattern of words, and tropes, where words are made to carry a meaning other than what they ordinarily signify. A type of scheme is polysyndeton, the repeating of a conjunction before every element in a list, where normally the conjunction would appear only before the last element, as in "Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!"—emphasizing the danger and number of animals more than the prosaic wording with only the second "and". A type of trope is metaphor, describing one thing as something that it clearly is not, in order to lead the mind to compare them, in "All the world's a stage."