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  1. Poetic, imaginative, or ornamental expression
  2. used for purposes of comparison, emphasis, or
  3. stylistic effect; usually one of a list of
  4. such forms dating from discussions of
  5. literary and rhetorical style in Greece in
  6. the 5th century BC. These figures include
  7. euphemism, hyperbole, metaphor, metonymy,
  8. onomatopoeia, oxymoron, personification, the
  9. pun, simile, and synecdoche.
  10.