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In some treatises, elocutio includes both 'figures of thought' and 'figures of speech'.
Many rhetorical treatises divide the figures of elocutio into 'figures of thought' and 'figures of speech'.
Poets' sensual reactions to figures of speech effectively serve as signposts for audiences that mark the boundaries between moral and ideological domains.
In general, he finds that non-core words are associated with greater intensity and intimacy, as is greater use of figures of speech.
From this orderliness we can detect the social functions (rather than cognitive aspects) of the use of figures of speech in interaction.
Your conjunctions and your hyperboles are all mixed up with your syntax, and your figures of speech only fall between 10 and 20.
It is also this controversial assumption that enables us to understand figures of speech such as hyperbole or metaphors.
This expression refers to figures of speech, that is, literary devices that embellish and beautify ordinary language.
Chap. 4 analyzes figures of speech that are often found in literary texts, such as metaphors, metonyms, idioms, and hyperbole.
Such figures of speech are part and parcel of the machinery of the language and seldom cause problems of understanding; nor do they usually disturb the basic meanings of words.
He should show some respect and not use such figures of speech.
He finished with a splendid mixture of figures of speech and figures of arithmetic.
We have had figures of speech about contracts and masters and servants and about horses and the momentum of cars going uphill.
We use these figures of speech as though we were pot boilers.
That is not cynicism—unless it is cynical to recognise that we are dealing with human beings and not simply with figures of speech.
