-> The author uses a specific figure of speech to prove her point.
A figure of speech is "a word or phrase used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or vivid effect" (Oxford Languages).
Examples include those such as similes, alliteration, onomatopoeias, and more.
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Answer:
•I hope he will accept that that was a figure of speech.
•It is of no use talking and imagining that it is only a figure of speech.
•That is not a mere figure of speech: their health has been ruined.
•I am an orator, and you are not, and there is a well-known figure of speech called hyperbole.
