No matter if you're in school or well past your days in English class, figures of speech are used every day in our lives. From songs and television shows to conversations and advertisements, we often ...

Figures of speech are used in many kinds of texts, including legal texts. The late Justice Scalia saw "speech" and "press" in the First Amendment as "a sort of synecdoche" (p. 38 here). And several ...

On a light note, if you are conversant with the word ‘shokolokobangoshe’, we probably went to primary school at around the same time. It is one of the few things I remember about that wonderful time ...

I love paraprosdokians. They are fun, witty, humorous and not a tribe related to the Game of Thrones Dothraki. A paraprosdokian, pronounced pæ-rê-prahz-dok-i-ên , is a figure of speech in which the ...

In conversation, speakers occasionally use figurative expressions such as "had a good innings," "take with a pinch of salt," or "come to the end of her tether." This article investigates WHERE in ...

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