Have you heard someone say, "That's just a figure of speech"? Maybe you weren't quite sure what that meant. Well, you're about to find out. The figures of speech in English have long names, many adapted from Greek and Latin by grammarians in the 19th century. But really a figure of speech is just what we call an alteration of normal language in order to achieve a specific effect. You probably use figures of speech all the time without knowing what they're called, and the names aren't really that important-except that they have a way of showing up on exams about the English language. So let's look at the figures of speech!
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There you have some common figures of speech in English. There are actually dozens of them-we've just picked some common ones. Don't worry if you can't remember them all. It's usually the most common ones, like simile and metaphor, that tend to show up on exams.
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