How To Use Figure of speech In A Sentence
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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
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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
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I didn't really mean my associate is a snake; it was just a figure of speech.
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He said he used the phrase as a figure of speech, and did not mean to imply she was a coward.
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It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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.
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to use `hand' for `worker' or `ten sail' for `ten ships' or `steel' for `sword' is to use a synecdochic figure of speech
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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
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Of course I'm not. It was just a figure of speech.
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The figure of speech, here, which is known as epizeuxis, is very difficult to do well.
Siris
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Not just in a figure of speech kind of way, but genuinely in love - jittery in its presence, pining during its absence, utterly fulfilled and completed during the time you spend with it?
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Does't that figure of speech signify a sycophant, defined by my dictionary as "a servile self-seeker who curries favor by flattering influential people"?
Wolfson On Ferraro's Latest: "We Have Made Clear That We Reject Her Remarks"
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There are six linguistic fallacies: equivocation, amphiboly or amphibology, accent, composition, division, and figure of speech or parallel-word construction.
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I didn't really mean my associate is a snake; it was just a figure of speech.
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You can look it up: A synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole
Undefined
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Of course I'm not. It was just a figure of speech.
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Lister said people should follow the 1946 advice of writer George Orwell: "Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
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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.
Theological Essays of the Late Benjamin Jowett: Seleted, Arranged, and Edited by Lewis Campbell
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I didn't really mean my associate is a snake; it was just a figure of speech.
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The principal vein is the mother lode, now a figure of speech as well as the name of one of the most famous deposits of the Californian Gold Rush.
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I didn't really mean my associate is a snake; it was just a figure of speech.
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The news media like to employ a figure of speech called metonymy and regularly claim to have received statements from streets and buildings.
New Statesman
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The antonymic figure of speech is a “Rube Goldberg invention,” after the cartoonist who drew up the most complex methods of completing a simple task.
No Uncertain Terms
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And he says that this rule applies in two ways: either to the figure of speech called synecdoche, or to legitimate numbers.
On Christian Doctrine, in Four Books
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He was employing a figure of speech, the apocope, which snips off the last part of a word.
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By a well-known figure of speech, called metonymy, we use a word denoting the means by which we accomplish anything to denote the end accomplished; we exercise care over anything by means of foresight, and indicate that care by the word foresight.
Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker
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I certainly had heard that people are dying to go to Harvard Law School, but I always thought it was a figure of speech. p.s. I wonder if, the following semester, some creative Torts professor at Harvard used this situation in an exam question ... maybe regarding causation, foreseeability, etc.?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Con Law Exam Kills Law Student
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I didn't really mean my associate is a snake; it was just a figure of speech.
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The lyrical grandeur of his language covers every known figure of speech from metaphor to simile, hyperbole to hendiadys.
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And when it comes to words that command attention, nothing can beat those that are phrased according to the figure of speech known as dehortatio, which Willard R.
'Neverisms': 11 Things You Should Never Do, Never Say, Never Forget (PHOTOS)
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The fable is figure of speech, including noumenon and implication. Zhuangzi's fables are no ( exception ).
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He said he used the phrase as a figure of speech, and did not mean to imply she was a coward.
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Of course I'm not. It was just a figure of speech.
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I didn't really mean my associate is a snake; it was just a figure of speech.
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There is even a rhetorical figure of speech called apophasis (from the Greek word for "to deny"), in which the speaker stresses an idea by denying or negating it.
Joseph Romm: What's in a Name? If it's "No Child Left Behind," You Might be Surprised
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The use of the yoke is a natural figure of speech on the lips of a carpenter-turned-teacher.
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Paralipsis, also known as praeteritio, preterition, cataphasis, antiphrasis, or parasiopesis, is a rhetorical figure of speech wherein the speaker or writer invokes a subject by denying that it should be invoked.
Obama says George Bush is "a good guy," "a good man," and "a good person."
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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
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Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
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a _caschrom_, the most uncouth hunter that ever paunched a deer, would tell of such histories in the most scrupulous language and with cunning regard for figure of speech.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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Whether this be a mere figure of speech used by that scurrilous lampooner, or whether it indicates that the work was circulated by the religious professors of that period, I cannot determine.
The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God.
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No, it's not a figure of speech, they quite literally make theatre out of two bread rolls and an unsliced white.
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I didn't really mean she was in outer space it's just a figure of speech.
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Paralipsis, also known as praeteritio, preterition, cataphasis, antiphrasis, or parasiopesis, is a rhetorical figure of speech wherein the speaker or writer invokes a subject by denying that it should be invoked.
Obama says George Bush is "a good guy," "a good man," and "a good person."
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Metaphor in traditional theories is taken only as a rhetorical device, or a figure of speech, which is only a matter of language.
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The oxymoron is a figure of speech that makes the unwitty witty.
The Times Literary Supplement
