The lyrical grandeur of his language covers every known figure of speech from metaphor to simile, hyperbole to hendiadys. |
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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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Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. |
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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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He was employing a figure of speech, the apocope, which snips off the last part of a word. |
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The guy was effectively putting his shirt on a horse, and it was the first and only time I have encountered life imitating a figure of speech. |
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Outside the box is a figure of speech in Canada that means to do something differently from the way you normally would. |
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If taken as a figure of speech, it could be used to encourage to holy living in connection with prayer. |
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Sometimes one cannot avoid the impression that Europe is not only a symbol but also a figure of speech. |
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This is only a figure of speech, but some are so captivated by this form that they maintain that Nature and God are one and the same thing. |
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They may be like Beth, a middle school student in Boston whose hemophobia was so severe that even a figure of speech like "cut it out" could make her faint. |
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When a self-communing thinker enunciates a figure of speech within the privacy of the mind, this figuration, unmindful of any outsider, is above all true to the subject's hidden character. |
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In this context, the endless calls for social dialogue are a rather surreal figure of speech. |
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Accuracy should not be sacrificed to figure of speech or any other desirable accessory of your speech. |
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Jesus uses this graphic figure of speech to show that our charitable deed should be for the Father, and not to gain notoriety for the giver. |
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Sometimes the lifting of hands could be understood as a figure of speech, but in most instances it is a real physical symbolic act. |
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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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The godforsakenness of the place is something more than a figure of speech. |
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To use a figure of speech, cappuccino is not always good for us. |
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Chiasmus is a rhetorical figure of speech denoting reversal or inversion. |
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It is used sometimes as a figure of speech to represent something much sought after that may not even exist, or, at least, may not ever be found. |
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Shreve creates a little world, peoples it with believable characters, and puts them through agonizing and joyful moments without a false note or a dissonant figure of speech. |
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Language can be a lot of fun, and one of the best examples is the oxymoron, generally defined as a figure of speech that combines seemingly contradictory terms. |
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