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20 answers for: Exaggerated-figure-of-speech-(9)
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HYPERBOLEExaggerated figure of speech (9)
REPORTAGECustom of journalist to retract figure of speech used in anger (9)
METAPHORSSheep milk cheese, builders of Cordoba, offered Spooner, suggesting figure of speech (9)
HENDIADYSFigure of speech had Sidney bewildered (9)
FACSIMILECopy notes and figure of speech (9)
EUPHEMISMA figure of speech by which an unpleasant or offensive thing is referred to by a milder term (9)
TIGHTROPE'High wire' used as a figure of speech on Thai radio (9)
ASYNDETONFigure of speech
TROPOLOGYFigure of speech
SYLLEPSISFigure of speech; zeugma
SACREDCOWFigure of speech for something considered immune from question or criticism (6,3)
METAPHORA figure of speech satisfied a figure in speech
SIMILEFigure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another of a different kind as an illustration
IDIOMSType of figure of speech (6)
ASADry ___ bone (example of a figure of speech called a simile): 2 wds.
TROLLOPEFigure of speech capturing the essential folly of 200-year-old writer (8)
TROPESaint of the Riviera failing to finish figure of speech (5)
METONYMYRepeating expression of surprise about school as a figure of speech
ZEUGMALeader of gods mostly game, mostly game for figure of speech (6)
LITOTESFigure of speech