rhetorical figure

A figure of speech is sometimes called a rhetorical figure or a locution.

Lupus also dealt with figures of sense and other rhetorical figures.

Figure of speech, also called a rhetorical figure.

It is a mere rhetorical figure-- what they call in the books, hyperbole."

Several hundred rhetorical figures were recognised by classical rhetoricians.

A rhetorical figure does not disrupt a conventional meaning randomly; it shifts it in a particular direction.

He used intensifying words, distinctive vocabulary and compounds, rhetorical figures, and repeated phrases as literary devices.

An introduction to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Figures.

Personification is the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.

Rhetorical Figures in Science.

In practice, signifyin' often takes the form of quoting from subcultural vernacular, while extending the meaning at the same time through a rhetorical figure.

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."

Most of the rhetorical figures are sparingly used-except such as consist in the parallelism or opposition of clauses.

Chandler, the premier practitioner of the American hard-boiled detective novel, elevated the wisecrack into a rhetorical figure somewhere between sarcasm and simile.

Hamlet was written later in his life, when he was better at matching rhetorical figures with the characters and the plot than early in his career.

Figura etymologica is a rhetorical figure in which words with the same etymological derivation are used adjacently.

The episode is broken up into short sections by newspaper-style headlines, and is characterised by an abundance of rhetorical figures and devices.

The Hebrew prophets frequently compared the sin of idolatry to the sin of adultery, in a frequently reappearing rhetorical figure.

The root hen 'one' is found in hendiadys , a rhetorical figure labeling expressions like nice and warm , instead of "nicely warm."

Associative feminist psychologies' awareness of the ambiguities of psychological signification is also an awareness of the rhetorical figures which structure this signification.

George Puttenham's Arte of English Poesy, for example, readily acknowledges that rhetorical figures can 'abuse' a relation between words and things by creating a doubleness.

Just as there were collections of facts written about many different subjects, numerous collections detailing every possible rhetorical figure used in literature emerged as well as how to write guides.

Another influence on the treatise can be found in Longinus' rhetorical figures, which draw from theories by a 1st-century BC writer, Caecilius of Calacte.

Claudius' speech is full of rhetorical figures, as is Hamlet's and, at times, Ophelia's, while Horatio, the guards, and the gravediggers use simpler methods of speech.

Quintus Cornificius was a Roman author of a work on rhetorical figures, and perhaps of a general treatise (ars, or techne) on the art of rhetoric.