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metaphor

How to sign: 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

metaphor in BSL Watch how to sign metaphor in British Sign Language
metaphor - University of Wolverhampton
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Categories: figure, figure of speech, image, trope

Within this category: dead metaphor, mixed metaphor, synesthetic metaphor

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