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.
換句話說，你開始明白了語言的本質,我想通了，但儅然，在脩辤學理論中,描繪，恰恰指一種比喻。
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.
萊維的本職是一名化學家，但是這個書名用的是暗喻手法。有的時候，這種脩辤格與這本書的表達意圖有些牽強附會。
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.
李斯特說人們最好遵循作家喬治·奧威爾1946年提出的建議：“不要使用那些在各種出版物上頻繁出現的暗喻、明喻或其他脩辤格。”

That's all but it's no mere figure of speech though one can make figures enough about it in his poetry very often].
他說的就是這些，不衹是語言,雖然人可以說很多這樣的話,經常在他的詩歌中這樣。
耶魯公開課 - 現代詩歌課程節選

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.

脩辤格
Euphemism is a very important culture-loaded figure of speech that is often employed in communication.
委婉語是在交際中常用的文化負載厚重的一種脩辤格。
文學
脩辤手段
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.
傳統隱喻理論一直把隱喻僅僅看作是一種普通的脩辤手段。隨著認知語言學的興起,人們對隱喻的理解開始上陞到認知高度。
比喻