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Uses of figurative language, or figures of speech, can take multiple forms, such as simile, metaphor, hyperbole, and many others. [10] Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature says that figurative language can be classified in five categories: resemblance or relationship, emphasis or understatement, figures of sound, verbal games, and errors.
A figure of speech or rhetorical figure is a word or phrase that intentionally deviates from straightforward language use or literal meaning to produce a rhetorical or intensified effect (emotionally, aesthetically, intellectually, etc.).
The first known use of the word literally was in the 15th century, [2] or the 1530s. [3] [2] The use of the word as an intensifier emerged later, at the latest by 1769, [4] [5] when Frances Brooke wrote the following sentence: [4] He is a fortunate man to be introduced to such a party of fine women at his arrival; it is literally to feed among ...
- They have large tool box, both figuratively and literally, as having the right tool makes all the difference, in terms of time to resolution. - They tend to read often, not one thing but several ...
Emhoff always has Harris’s back—both literally and figuratively. On June 1, 2019, as Harris was on stage speaking at MoveOn's Big Ideas Forum, a protestor rushed the stage and grabbed the ...
China's Suspension Glass Bridge, often referred to as the Zhangjiajie Glass Bridge, takes the concept of a pedestrian walkway to a whole new level—literally and figuratively.
First attested in English in 1382, the word allegory comes from Latin allegoria, the latinisation of the Greek ἀλληγορία (allegoría), "veiled language, figurative", [4] literally "speaking about something else", [5] which in turn comes from ἄλλος (allos), "another, different" [6] and ἀγορεύω (agoreuo), "to harangue, to ...
An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).