Figures of speech are used in many kinds of texts, including legal texts. The late Justice Scalia saw "speech" and "press" in the First Amendment as "a sort of synecdoche" (p. 38 here). And several ...

As an English teacher, teaching literary devices and figures of speech is a never-ending job. There are hundreds of them out there (no hyperbole intended), but there are at least a few which every ...

Students learn about figures of speech in French lessons, so that they can use them in their writing as well as in their reading comprehension. However, they often have difficulty identifying and ...