Posted by BEN on Wednesday, January 2, 2008 at 10:20pm.
Figurative speech is language that contains images, such as metaphors and similes. A "Figure of speech" is where a word or words are used that do not have their literal meaning, often as an exaggeration. Some phrases can be both.
Literary terms - figurative language:
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/
A figure of speech:
http://www.usingenglish.com/glossary/figure-of-speech.html
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