figure of speech
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intentional deviation from ordinary (literal) language, chosen to produce a rhetorical effect or for other purposes, such as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, personification or simile
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- Subclass of
- literary technique
- Said to be same as
- popular saying
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- model item
- metaphor
- studied by
- rhetoric
- topic's main category
- Category:Figures of speech
- Commons category
- Figures of speech
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