How To Use figure of speech In A Sentence
- Moreover, I realized -- experienced, even -- at long last, that "the Body of Christ" is a good deal more than a figure of speech; it is an appalling truth and mystery, uniting us beyond our knowing with one another, and uniting us with an ever greater mystery, the perichoresis ( "circling dance") of the Holy Trinity Who is our One God. Scott Cairns: Recovering the Body of Christ
- The oxymoron is a figure of speech that makes the unwitty witty. The Times Literary Supplement
- He was employing a figure of speech, the apocope, which snips off the last part of a word.
- By a well-known figure of speech, called metonymy, we use a word denoting the means by which we accomplish anything to denote the end accomplished; we exercise care over anything by means of foresight, and indicate that care by the word foresight. Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker
- I certainly had heard that people are dying to go to Harvard Law School, but I always thought it was a figure of speech. p.s. I wonder if, the following semester, some creative Torts professor at Harvard used this situation in an exam question ... maybe regarding causation, foreseeability, etc.? The Volokh Conspiracy » Con Law Exam Kills Law Student
- I didn't really mean my associate is a snake; it was just a figure of speech.
- The lyrical grandeur of his language covers every known figure of speech from metaphor to simile, hyperbole to hendiadys.
- And when it comes to words that command attention, nothing can beat those that are phrased according to the figure of speech known as dehortatio, which Willard R. 'Neverisms': 11 Things You Should Never Do, Never Say, Never Forget (PHOTOS)
- The fable is figure of speech, including noumenon and implication. Zhuangzi's fables are no ( exception ).
- He said he used the phrase as a figure of speech, and did not mean to imply she was a coward.
