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Definition
language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense; e.g., metaphors, similes, and hyperbole
- Sometimes, when thinking about this, I thought that the idea that one person's mind is accessible to another's is just a conversational illusion, just a figure of speech, an assumption that makes some kind of exchange between basically alien creatures seem plausible, and that really the relationship of one person to another is ultimately unknowable.Part 3 (80% in)
There are no more uses of "figure of speech" in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
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