0 an expression that uses words to mean something different from their ordinary meaning -- 修辞格；修辞手段；比喻
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.
