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Contradictory Figure Of Speech Crossword Clue and Answers List
| Rate | Answer | Clue |
| OXYMORON | Apparently contradictory figure of speech | |
| ORATOR | Figure of speech | |
| METAPHOR | Figure of speech | |
| SIMILE | Figure of speech | |
| TROPE | Figure of speech | |
| HYPERBOLE | Exaggerated figure of speech | |
| FLOWER | A figure of speech; an ornament of style. | |
| PATHOPOELA | A speech, or figure of speech, designed to move the passion. | |
| SYNCRISIS | A figure of speech in which opposite things or persons are compared. | |
| DILOGY | An ambiguous speech; a figure in which a word is used an equivocal sense. | |
| OBSECRATION | A figure of speech in which the orator implores the assistance of God or man. | |
| EPANODOS | A figure of speech in which the parts of a sentence or clause are repeated in inverse order | |
| SYLLEPSIS | A figure of speech by which a word is used in a literal and metaphorical sense at the same time. | |
| ENANTIOSIS | A figure of speech by which what is to be understood affirmatively is stated negatively, and the contrary; affirmation by contraries. | |
| SCHESIS | A figure of speech whereby the mental habitude of an adversary or opponent is feigned for the purpose of arguing against him. | |
| EROTESIS | A figure o/ speech by which a strong affirmation of the contrary, is implied under the form o/ an earnest interrogation, as in the following lines; - | |
| PERSONIFICATION | A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopop/ia; as, the floods clap their hands. | |
| PARUSIA | A figure of speech by which the present tense is used instead of the past or the future, as in the animated narration of past, or in the prediction of future, events. | |
| HETEROSIS | A figure of speech by which one form of a noun, verb, or pronoun, and the like, is used for another, as in the sentence: "What is life to such as me?" | |
| ABSCISSION | A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, "He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more." | |
| APOSIOPESIS | A figure of speech in which the speaker breaks off suddenly, as if unwilling or unable to state what was in his mind; as, "I declare to you tha... | |
| ONOMATOPOEIA | The formation of words in imitation of sounds; a figure of speech in which the sound of a word is imitative of the sound of the thing which the... | |
| APOSTROPHE | A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second pe... | |
| LIP | One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speech essenti... | |
| DIGIT | Figure | |
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