figure+of+speech
61Speech act — For the US Act, see SPEECH Act of 2010. Speech Act is a technical term in linguistics and the philosophy of language. The contemporary use of the term goes back to John L. Austin s doctrine of locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts.… …
62Speech balloon — The three most common speech balloons (top to bottom: speech, thought, scream). Speech balloons (also speech bubbles, dialogue balloons or word balloons) are a graphic convention used most commonly in comic books, comic strips and cartoons to… …
63Figure de style — Substitution opérée par la métaphore : « Ils viennent les chevaux de la Mer ! » Jean Tardieu (La Grande marée de printemps, recueil Margeries, 2009). Huile sur toile, (1893) par Walter Crane. Une figure de style, du latin …
64Academy figure — Figure Fig ure (f[i^]g [ u]r; 135), n. [F., figure, L. figura; akin to fingere to form, shape, feign. See {Feign}.] 1. The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance. [1913 Webster] Flowers have all exquisite figures. Bacon. [1913 Webster] 2.… …
65Lay figure — Figure Fig ure (f[i^]g [ u]r; 135), n. [F., figure, L. figura; akin to fingere to form, shape, feign. See {Feign}.] 1. The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance. [1913 Webster] Flowers have all exquisite figures. Bacon. [1913 Webster] 2.… …
66To cut a figure — Figure Fig ure (f[i^]g [ u]r; 135), n. [F., figure, L. figura; akin to fingere to form, shape, feign. See {Feign}.] 1. The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance. [1913 Webster] Flowers have all exquisite figures. Bacon. [1913 Webster] 2.… …
67Figure de rhétorique — Les figures de rhétorique sont les effets que l orateur place dans son discours pour mieux atteindre son public. Cet effet s exprime souvent par le biais d une figure de style. Les deux dénominations sont synonymes; on emploie cependant plus… …
68Figure dérivative — Une figure dérivative (substantif féminin) est une figure de style qui consiste dans l utilisation dans la même phrase de deux mots fondés sur la même racine (ce procédé en lexicologie se nomme la dérivation). En stylistique, la figure dérivative …
69figureof speech — figure of speech n. pl. figures of speech An expression that uses language in a nonliteral way, such as a metaphor or synedoche, or in a structured or unusual way, such as anaphora or chiasmus, or that employs sounds, such as alliteration or… …
70figure of fun — noun someone viewed as an object of derision: *Over the years he s been written off as a political lightweight, a country bumpkin, a figure of fun with a speech impediment and a hat fetish. –aap news, 1999 …