figure of speech

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	Definition:		[n]  language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
	Synonyms:		figure, image, trope
	See Also:		exaggeration, hyperbole, irony, kenning, metaphor, metonymy, oxymoron, personification, prosopopoeia, rhetorical device, simile, synecdoche, zeugma
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	Related Terms:		adornment, alliteration, allusion, anacoluthon, anadiplosis, analogy, anaphora, anastrophe, antiphrasis, antithesis, antonomasia, apophasis, aporia, aposiopesis, apostrophe, beauties, catachresis, chiasmus, circumlocution, climax, colors, colors of rhetoric, conversion, ecphonesis, elegant variation, embellishment, embroidery, emphasis, exclamation, figure, fine writing, floridity, floridness, flourish, floweriness, flowers of speech, frill, gemination, hypallage, hyperbaton, hyperbole, inversion, irony, litotes, lushness, luxuriance, malapropism, meiosis, metaphor, metonymy, onomatopoeia, ornament, ornamentation, oxymoron, paregmenon, parenthesis, periphrasis, personification, pleonasm, preterition, prolepsis, purple patches, regression, repetition, sarcasm, simile, similitude, spoonerism, syllepsis, symploce, synecdoche, zeugma