figure of speech

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Noun figure of speech has 1 sense

trope, figure of speech, figure, image - language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
--₁ is a kind of rhetorical device
--₁ has particulars:
irony; hyperbole, exaggeration; kenning; metaphor; metonymy; oxymoron; personification, prosopopoeia; simile; synecdoche; zeugma

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