figurative language
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But the singer never has to explain her figurative language to listeners because she’s taking us along the ride, assuming we know what she’s singing about.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2024
Consider rhetorical strategies such as parallelism, repetition, rhetorical questions, and figurative language.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
Repetition is also employed in a variety of figurative language.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
They must construct themselves through word and voice, through the indirection of figurative language and the contrivances of patterned rhythms and rhymes.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2021
So crowded is our stock of figurative language that every profession—legal, corporate, fashion, artistic, literary, and so on—seems to have a collection all its own.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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