Figure of speech

intentional deviation from ordinary (literal) language, chosen to produce a rhetorical effect or for other purposes, such as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, personification or simile

L'esprit de l'escalier oxymoron hyperbole metaphor synecdoche understatement simile personification Meiosis metonymy scheme Barefoot and pregnant laurels Nigger in the woodpile

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