How To Use figure of speech In A Sentence
- Moreover, I realized -- experienced, even -- at long last, that "the Body of Christ" is a good deal more than a figure of speech; it is an appalling truth and mystery, uniting us beyond our knowing with one another, and uniting us with an ever greater mystery, the perichoresis ( "circling dance") of the Holy Trinity Who is our One God. Scott Cairns: Recovering the Body of Christ
- And fatal is no figure of speech; for anything written with that conscious bias is doomed to death. Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
- I didn't really mean my associate is a snake; it was just a figure of speech.
- He said he used the phrase as a figure of speech, and did not mean to imply she was a coward.
- It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. Times, Sunday Times
- This notion is so core to rhetoric that the ancient Greeks even had a figure of speech named for it -- apophasis, (from the Greek word for "to deny"), the figure of speech that emphasizes a point by pretending to deny it, that stresses an idea or image by negating it. Joseph Romm: Obama's Self-Defeating Rhetoric
- He won a tense duel over first-time participant Sidharth Chand, 12, of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, who finally stumbled on " prosopopoeia , " a word describing a type of figure of speech.
- to use `hand' for `worker' or `ten sail' for `ten ships' or `steel' for `sword' is to use a synecdochic figure of speech
- There are mixed modes here also, as in the use of the term sacrifice — the word has a temporary allusive reference to a Mosaical figure of speech. The Epistles of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, Galatians and Romans: Essays and Dissertations
- Of course I'm not. It was just a figure of speech.
