Figures Of Speech Quotes

Figures Of Speech Quote of the day

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech.

Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In short, the lives of others.

If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out

Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.

Attitudes are the real figures of speech.

Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.

I am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use.

Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking and other diseases.

The act of metaphor then was a thrust at truth and lie, depending where you were: inside, safe, or outside, lost.