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Poetic, imaginative, or ornamental expression
used for purposes of comparison, emphasis, or
stylistic effect; usually one of a list of
such forms dating from discussions of
literary and rhetorical style in Greece in
the 5th century BC. These figures include
euphemism, hyperbole, metaphor, metonymy,
onomatopoeia, oxymoron, personification, the
pun, simile, and synecdoche.