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A figure of speech — Flathead High School teacher named Speech Coach of the Year

Daily Inter Lake
To say it's been a whirlwind year for Flathead High School speech and debate head coach and English teacher Shannon O'Donnell is an...
6 months ago

Rhetorical Figure Detection: Chiasmus, Epanaphora, Epiphora

Frontiers
Rhetorical figures are valuable linguistic data for literary analysis. In this article, we target the detection of three rhetorical figures that belong to...
3 months ago

Fauci rejects Bannon calling threats a metaphor: ‘That’s nonsense’

The Hill
Former White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci hit back at Steve Bannon on Sunday for saying that his past comments directed at...
3 months ago

Ron Johnson said Biden exiting the presidential race was a 'coup.' Experts say it doesn't fit the definition.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A coup, short for the French phrase "coup d'etat," is trademarked by threats of violence or force to remove someone from power.
1 month ago

Comics: It’s a Figure of Speech

The Commonwealth Times
Metaphors are the bee's knees. Comics by Carleigh Ross, Sarah Brady, and Audrey Garrett.
44 months ago

Matawalle: Sticking with our actuality and not metaphor

Punch Newspapers
A metaphor is a figure of speech that implicitly compares two unrelated things, typically by stating that one thing is another.
4 months ago

Figure of Speech

The College Today
The award's namesake gave the medal an air of prestige. Robert Worth Bingham was a well-known judge, politician and publisher of The Courier-...
114 months ago

This figure of speech isn't dead – it's just resting

The Guardian
A metaphor based on a familiar word such as shoe is going to have greater evocative power than one based on a less familiar word like rut. Shoe...
165 months ago

'Realism Is a Figure of Speech'

Yahoo
The first is what he calls vakrokti, which literally means “crooked speech”—it might be more accurate to say “oblique speech,” which includes...
119 months ago