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What is a figure of speech?

What is a figure of speech? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (idiomatic) A word or phrase that departs from straightforward, literal language.
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This is only a figure of speech, but some are so captivated by this form that they maintain that Nature and God are one and the same thing.
When a self-communing thinker enunciates a figure of speech within the privacy of the mind, this figuration, unmindful of any outsider, is above all true to the subject's hidden character.
Jesus uses this graphic figure of speech to show that our charitable deed should be for the Father, and not to gain notoriety for the giver.
Without any figure of speech I feel quite ashamed when I think of you, Bertie.
If taken as a figure of speech, it could be used to encourage to holy living in connection with prayer.
No, it's not a figure of speech, they quite literally make theatre out of two bread rolls and an unsliced white.

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