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Glossary Definition of word.
figure of speech
A figure of speech is a literary tool used by an author or rhetorical tool used by speaker to clarify the meaning of a subject by its association to a secondary but familiar element (i.e., a person, place, thing, idea, action, or condition of existence). The familiar element is the "figure" which possesses some similarities or corresponding realities to the main subject. Figures of speech include similes, metaphors, and analogies. The use of similes, metaphors, and analogies forms figurative language.
Figures of speech also include allusions, euphemism, irony, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox, personification, puns, etc.
Unwittingly, the average person uses figures of speech in daily conversation. As a collection of holy writings designed to impact all people, the Bible is full of figures of speech. |
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