Both Uses of
figure of speech
in
Middlemarch
- It is what we call a figure of speech—speech at a high figure, as one may say.†
Chpt 3 *
- This was a bold figure of speech, but not exactly the right thing; for, unhappily, the pat opening had slipped away—even couplets from Pope may be but "fallings from us, vanishings," when fear clutches us, and a glass of sherry is hurrying like smoke among our ideas.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(figure of speech) language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense; e.g., metaphors, similes, and hyperbole