figure of speech 的定义
plural figures of speech.Rhetoric.
- any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect.Compare trope.
figure of speech 近义词
turn of expression
figure of speech 的近义词 53 个
- adumbration
- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- analogue
- analogy
- anaphora
- anticlimax
- antistrophe
- antithesis
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- asyndeton
- bathos
- communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device
- comparison
- conceit
- device
- echoism
- ellipsis
- euphemism
- euphuism
- exaggeration
- expression
- flourish
- flower
- hyperbole
- image
- imagery
- irony
- litotes
- malapropism
- manner of speaking
- metaphor
- metonymy
- onomatopoeia
- ornament
- oxymoron
- parable
- paradox
- parallel
- personification
- proteron
- rhetoric
- sarcasm
- satire
- simile
- synecdoche
- trope
- tropology
- turn of phrase
- understatement
- way of speaking
更多figure of speech例句
- Those are troubling numbers, for unfettered speech is not incidental to a flourishing society.
- There is no such thing as speech so hateful or offensive it somehow “justifies” or “legitimizes” the use of violence.
- We need to recover and grow the idea that the proper answer to bad speech is more and better speech.
- Tend to your own garden, to quote the great sage of free speech, Voltaire, and invite people to follow your example.
- The simple, awful truth is that free speech has never been particularly popular in America.
- Alessandro turned a grateful look on Ramona as he translated this speech, so in unison with Indian modes of thought and feeling.
- And so this is why the clever performer cannot reproduce the effect of a speech of Demosthenes or Daniel Webster.
- He was tall and of familiar figure, and the firelight was playing in the tossed curls of his short, fair hair.
- Their opportunities and earnings are relatively small, and in order to live they must figure closely.
- He said no more in words, but his little blue eyes had an eloquence that left nothing to mere speech.