figures of speech

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figures of speech

Scope note

A literary technique that employs an unusual use of language, often to compare or associate things.

Alternative terms

UF↸ figures

Broader Terms

BT↑ literary techniques

More specific terms

NT4 ↓ rhetorical figures of speech ►▼
- NT5 ↓ antithesis (figures of speech)
- NT5 ↓ apostrophe (figures of speech)
- NT5 ↓ chiasmus
- NT5 ↓ epanalepsis
- NT5 ↓ oxymoron
- NT5 ↓ parallelism (rhetorical figure of speech)
- NT5 ↓ rhetorical questions
- NT5 ↓ zeugma ►▼
  - NT6 ↓ syllepsis
NT4 ↓ tenor (figures of speech) ►▼
- NT5 ↓ vehicle (figures of speech)
NT4 ↓ tropes (figures of speech) ►▼
- NT5 ↓ allegory
- NT5 ↓ hyperbole
- NT5 ↓ litotes
- NT5 ↓ metaphor ►▼
  - NT6 ↓ catachresis
  - NT6 ↓ conceits (figures of speech)
  - NT6 ↓ dead metaphor
  - NT6 ↓ mixed metaphor
- NT5 ↓ metonymy
- NT5 ↓ periphrasis
- NT5 ↓ personification
- NT5 ↓ simile ►▼
  - NT6 ↓ analogy
- NT5 ↓ synechdoche

Date of creation

26-Nov-2007

Accepted term

26-Nov-2007

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