| 单词 | figure of speech |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfigure of speech a. Any of the various ‘forms’ of expression, deviating from the normal arrangement or use of words, which are adopted in order to give beauty, variety, or force to a composition; e.g. Aposiopesis, Hyperbole, Metaphor, etc. Also, figure of speech. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > [noun] tropeOE figurec1386 image1550 scheme1553 noema1555 rhetorical figure1565 idea1642 tropics1697 feint1730 arabesque1821 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > [noun] > permitted deviation in word-form or grammar figure of speechc1386 grammar-figure1656 c1386 G. Chaucer Clerk's Prol. 16 Your termes, your coloures, and your figures, Kepe hem in store, til [etc.]. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. vii. 128 Figures be the instruments of ornament in euery language. 1596 J. Harington New Disc. Aiax Prol. sig. B4 And minding to speake it shorter, by the figure of abbreuiation. 1610 Bible (Douay) II. Psalms cxiii. Comm. By the figure Apostrophe he speaketh to the sea, river, and hilles. 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. Introd. Pref. sig. a5v That noble Figure of Rhetoriok [sic] call'd Hyperbole. a1679 T. Hobbes Art of Rhetoric plainly set Forth in Art of Rhetoric (1681) iii. 146 A Figure, is Garnishing of Speech in Words, or in a Sentence. 1766 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 14 Jan. (1932) (modernized text) VI. 2705 The egotism is the usual and favourite figure of most people's rhetoric. 1795 L. Murray Eng. Gram. App. 210 Figures of Speech imply some departure from simplicity of expression. 1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 161 The proverb ‘as many slaves, so many enemies’ was, in their case, no figure of rhetoric but the stern and simple truth. < as lemmas |
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