figures of speech
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Figures of speech A type of rhetoric involving abstract or symbolic expressions and using language to achieve a particular effect, such as giving greater emphasis, novelty to grab attention, or as an attempt to clarify – sometimes though the use of ‘figures of speech’ may actually make things less clear.
Examples are metaphors, similes, euphemisms, irony, rhetorical questions, and hyperbole.
(see also: allegory, sarcasm, innuendo, dilemma, imply, irony, definition, Framing)
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