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The title refers both to 'hyperbolae' as geometric design and as a figure of speech.
The syntax of "as" is the figure of speech known as simile.
An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms.
A metaphor is a "figure of speech" in which a term is detached from what it normally designates and transferred, implicitly or by analogy, to another object.
All this is really figure of speech.
That is not just a figure of speech.
And that is not a figure of speech.
It is no mere figure of speech to say that.
I hope he will accept that that was a figure of speech.
It is of no use talking and imagining that it is only a figure of speech.
That is not a mere figure of speech: their health has been ruined.
I am an orator, and you are not, and there is a well-known figure of speech called hyperbole.
I do not use it as a figure of speech.
I am using a figure of speech to demonstrate the seriousness of the issue.
I hope that it was a figure of speech.
