figure of speech

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In other words you come to understand what language is I figured it out but of course in rhetorical theory figure is precisely a figure of speech.
换句话说，你开始明白了语言的本质,我想通了，但当然，在修辞学理论中,描绘，恰恰指一种比喻。
Levi was a working chemist, but the title is a metaphor and even this figure of speech is sometimes a little strained to comply with the book's scheme.
莱维的本职是一名化学家，但是这个书名用的是暗喻手法。有的时候，这种修辞格与这本书的表达意图有些牵强附会。
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.
李斯特说人们最好遵循作家乔治·奥威尔1946年提出的建议：“不要使用那些在各种出版物上频繁出现的暗喻、明喻或其他修辞格。”

That's all but it's no mere figure of speech though one can make figures enough about it in his poetry very often].
他说的就是这些，不只是语言,虽然人可以说很多这样的话,经常在他的诗歌中这样。
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Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
FORBES: Better Copy Thanks to George Orwell
He was a master of rhetoric, as he was a master of mimicry, but his preferred figure of speech was one of the lowest, the pun.
NEWYORKER: Silence, Exile, Punning
But maybe my saying so is a figure of speech.
NEWYORKER: Lake Water

an expression that uses words to mean something different from their ordinary meaning

A figure of speech is an expression or word that is used with a metaphorical rather than a literal meaning.

修辞格
Euphemism is a very important culture-loaded figure of speech that is often employed in communication.
委婉语是在交际中常用的文化负载厚重的一种修辞格。
文学
修辞手段
Metaphor has been regarded as a figure of speech for a long time by traditional metaphor theories, while conceptual metaphor theory holds that it is a cognitive phenomenon, a significant way of thinking.
传统隐喻理论一直把隐喻仅仅看作是一种普通的修辞手段。随着认知语言学的兴起,人们对隐喻的理解开始上升到认知高度。
比喻