BSL Sign Language Dictionary

Search and compare thousands of words and phrases in British Sign Language (BSL). The largest collection online.

Android app on Google Play
NEW View all these signs in the Sign BSL Android App. Download for free.

figure of speech

How to sign: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

Sorry, no video found for this word.

Similiar / Same: trope, image, figure

Categories: rhetorical device

Within this category: hyperbole, irony, kenning, metaphor, metonymy, oxymoron, personification, simile, synecdoche, zeugma

Do you know the sign for this?

Upload your sign now.

Upload
Share »   Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email