figure+of+speech
111Tonéx — Infobox musical artist Name = Tonéx Img capt = Img size = 500 Landscape = Background = solo singer Birth name = Anthony Charles Williams II Alias = TON3X, T.Bizzy, The Black Maverick, T Boy, O ryn, Pastor N8ion, ACW2 Born = Birth date and… …
112List of forms of word play — This is a list of techniques used in word play with Wikipedia articles.Technique that involve the phonetic values of words* Mondegreen: a mishearing (usually unintentional) of a phrase as a homophone or near homophone that has as a result… …
113irony — irony1 /uy reuh nee, uy euhr /, n., pl. ironies. 1. the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: the irony of her reply, How nice! when I said I had to work all weekend. 2. Literature. a. a technique of… …
114metaphor — metaphorical /met euh fawr i keuhl, for /, metaphoric, adj. metaphorically, adv. metaphoricalness, n. /met euh fawr , feuhr/, n. 1. a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in… …
115Sacrifice of the Mass — • The word Mass (missa) first established itself as the general designation for the Eucharistic Sacrifice in the West after the time of Pope Gregory the Great, the early Church having used the expression the breaking of bread (fractio panis) or… …
116Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus — Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus The treatment of this subject is divided into two parts: I. Doctrinal Explanations; II. Historical Ideas. I. DOCTRINAL… …
117simile — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. figure of speech, comparison. See figurative. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. metaphor, analogy, likeness, epic simile, explicit comParison of dissimilars; see also comParison 2 , figure of speech . III… …
118metaphor — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. trope, simile, implied comParison, figure of speech; see comParison 2 . • mix metaphors, Syn. be inconsistent, garble, talk illogically; see confuse . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) n. [MET uh for] a figure …
119trope — 1530s, from L. tropus a figure of speech, from Gk. tropos turn, direction, turn or figure of speech, related to trope a turning and trepein to turn, from PIE root trep to turn (Cf. Skt. trapate is ashamed, confused, prop. turns away in shame; L.… …
120Vowel — In phonetics, a vowel is a sound in spoken language, such as English ah! IPA| [ɑː] or oh! IPA| [oʊ] , pronounced with an open vocal tract so that there is no build up of air pressure at any point above the glottis. This contrasts with consonants …
