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figure of speech

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
figure of speech

▶noun a word or phrase used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or vivid effect.

'figure of speech' also found in these Oxford entries:

emphasis - hysteron proteron - metaphor - oxymoron - prosopopoeia - scheme - simile - syllepsis - synecdoche - zeugma

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