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figure of speech vs metaphor

metaphor vs figure of speech

figure of speech and metaphor both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
figure of speech Yes No No No
metaphor Yes No No No
As nouns, metaphor is a hyponym of figure of speech; that is, metaphor is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than figure of speech:
  • figure of speech: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
  • metaphor: a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
Other hyponyms of figure of speech include conceit, irony, exaggeration, hyperbole, kenning, metonymy, oxymoron, personification, prosopopoeia, simile, synecdoche, zeugma, hypotyposis.
figure of speech (noun) metaphor (noun)
language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
Difference between figure of speech and metaphor

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