Figures of speech are used in many kinds of texts, including legal texts. The late Justice Scalia saw "speech" and "press" in the First Amendment as "a sort of synecdoche" (p. 38 here). And several ...

No matter if you're in school or well past your days in English class, figures of speech are used every day in our lives. From songs and television shows to conversations and advertisements, we often ...

As an English teacher, teaching literary devices and figures of speech is a never-ending job. There are hundreds of them out there (no hyperbole intended), but there are at least a few which every ...

I love paraprosdokians. They are fun, witty, humorous and not a tribe related to the Game of Thrones Dothraki. A paraprosdokian, pronounced pæ-rê-prahz-dok-i-ên , is a figure of speech in which the ...

Students learn about figures of speech in French lessons, so that they can use them in their writing as well as in their reading comprehension. However, they often have difficulty identifying and ...

“The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody,” Ernest Hemingway once said, perhaps knowing he’d one day be an easy target. Hemingway’s famously terse, epicurean style has been widely ...