Intentional deviation from ordinary (literal) language, chosen to produce a rhetorical effect or for other purposes, such as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, personification or simile
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Works from the collections
3 works
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Rhetorical figures in science / Jeanne Fahnestock.
Jeanne FahnestockDate: 1999- Books
Boswell's creative gloom : a study of imagery and melancholy in the writings of James Boswell / Allan Ingram.
Ingram, AllanDate: 1982- Books
Time's purpled masquers : stars and the afterlife in Renaissance English literature / Alastair Fowler.
Alastair FowlerDate: 1996