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Figure of Speech - Importance, Types with Example

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The Oxford Learner’s Dictionary defines ‘Figures of Speech’ as “a word or phrase used differently from its usual meaning to create a particular mental picture or effect.” Traditionally, these devices have been known to people as poetic devices to analyse the poem.

The figures of speech examples in English would thus be a way of describing more in English but without literally saying it out loud. Thus, using figures of speech with examples, one can speak highly significant phrases and add liveliness, and beauty to speech. One may call them the “ornaments of speech.”"