rhetorical term
figure of speech
stylistic device

Apparently equality is more than just a rhetorical term among the people.

I'm sure that when athletes and movie stars are called cultural heroes, that's just a rhetorical term.

This page explains commonly used rhetorical terms in alphabetical order.

During this period, the Sanskritic influence is present in most abstract, religious, scientific and rhetorical terms.

In rhetorical terms, it was a significant shift.

The speech is renowned for the grand rhetorical terms in which it seems to come down firmly and decisively on both sides of the question.

Coniectura was also a rhetorical term applied to forms of argumentation, including court cases.

Shakespeare constantly reflects on the problem of synecdoche in his plays, a rhetorical term meaning "the part representing the whole".

The rhetorical term for this is litotes.

Hypozeuxis is a rhetorical term for an expression or sentence where every clause has its own independent subject and predicate.

Asteismus is a rhetorical term for a mocking or humorous reply that employs word play.

Colon: Part of a glossary of classical rhetorical terms.

Miliband did not go into details, but this was interesting in rhetorical terms because, if you closed your eyes, it could have been Tony Blair.

Diacope is a rhetorical term meaning repetition of a word or phrase with one or two intervening words.

Adam loved words, was fascinated by them, their meanings and what you could do with them, with anagrams and palindromes and rhetorical terms and etymology.

University of Kentucky Division of Classics, "A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples."

True-believer syndrome is an informal or rhetorical term used by M. Lamar Keene in his 1976 book The Psychic Mafia.

It could be argued that by the 1930s, sonata form was merely a rhetorical term for any movement that stated themes, took them apart, and put them back together again.

New Europe is a rhetorical term used by conservative political analysts in the United States to describe European post-Communist era countries in Central and Eastern Europe.

In Lanham's Handlist of Rhetorical Terms, the three terms have somewhat restrictive definitions, arguably in tune with a certain interpretation of their etymologies from Greek:

A rhetorical term that has been defined differently by Aristotle and Ramus, among others; generally, it means using verbal communication between people to discuss topics in order to come to an agreement about them.

Other dictionaries contain lists of words which have special meanings in literary criticism, such as The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics or A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms.

It is a country edgy about its place in the world, fretting about the economic strength of West Germany, committed in rhetorical terms to building a more intimate comity of European nations but uncertain how, or whether, this will work.

I still believe that we should legislate in legal and not rhetorical terms to ensure that our television companies have a greater obligation to broadcast products which have been devised, produced, interpreted and created in the countries of the European Union.

The adaptation of linguistic terms like mood and of rhetorical terms like ellipsis is not so much designed to construct rigid parallels either with language or with rhetoric, but rather is itself a rhetorical device for freeing narrative from any referential interpretation.

He had always thought it was a figure of speech.

He had considered that too to be a figure of speech.

"Which I guess is no longer just a figure of speech."

Then she said that was only a figure of speech.

Or it may be a figure of speech for thinking a great deal about death.

At least it used to be an interesting figure of speech.

I was just using that as a figure of speech, so sorry.

Never heard that figure of speech before, but I will remember it now.

And maybe, he thought, that wasn't just a figure of speech.

It has become a figure of speech to say that a story "takes place."

I only use the word lieutenant as a figure of speech.

He should show some respect and not use such figures of speech.

She understood the figure of speech and didn't seem to like it.

"The Revolution in power" was for the people not simply a figure of speech.

Somewhere along the line it got to be more than a figure of speech.

As a figure of speech she can be found throughout European literature.

That was just a figure of speech; you know I don't hold with black magic.

I'd like to be able to use a more original figure of speech to describe them, but that is how they look.

He was, as the figure of speech would have it, all ears.

This was a figure of speech common to the sailors at the time.

I always thought that was a figure of speech or a cartoon thing.

He later said this was a figure of speech and that no such book existed.

A figure of speech that you may not have known."

Mind you, this "walking" stuff is just a figure of speech!

'Look it was just a figure of speech, all right?