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 ...

A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares one thing to another without using “like” or “as.” This guide explains the ...

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. —Gustave Flaubert Notebook departs this month from the table of contents, its purpose served and its license expired after a term of twenty ...

2011-08-06T09:00:32-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/ebf/300690-m.jpgIn his book Figures of Speech, William Bennett Turner examines American’s relationship with ...