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figure of speech
- In figure of speech: The five major categories
…simile, and irony, are called tropes.
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traditional and modern rhetoric
- In rhetoric: Elements of rhetoric
…made a functional distinction between trope (like metaphor, a textural effect) and scheme (like allegory, a structural principle). To the former category belong such figures as metaphor, simile (a comparison announced by “like” or “as”), personification (attributing human qualities to a nonhuman being or object), irony (a discrepancy between a…
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