"figure" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Figure of speech, also called a rhetorical figure.
- He used intensifying words, distinctive vocabulary and compounds, rhetorical figures, and repeated phrases as literary devices.
- A rhetorical figure does not disrupt a conventional meaning randomly; it shifts it in a particular direction.
- The second is that the author of the epistle, "uses the conditional sentence in a variety of rhetorical figures which are unknown to the gospel."
- Several hundred rhetorical figures were recognised by classical rhetoricians.
- A figure of speech is sometimes called a rhetorical figure or a locution.
- It is a mere rhetorical figure-- what they call in the books, hyperbole.
- In practice, signifyin' often takes the form of quoting from subcultural vernacular, while extending the meaning at the same time through a rhetorical figure.
- Personification is the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.
- Figura etymologica is a rhetorical figure in which words with the same etymological derivation are used adjacently.
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