<Dd> To say "It was like having a butterfly farm in my stomach," "It felt like a butterfly farm in my stomach," or "I was so nervous that I had a butterfly farm in my stomach" could be a hyperbole, because it is exaggerated . </Dd> <Ul> <Li> "That filthy place was really dirty" is an example of tautology, as there are the two words (' filthy' and' dirty') having almost the same meaning and are repeated so as to make the text more emphatic . </Li> </Ul> <Li> "That filthy place was really dirty" is an example of tautology, as there are the two words (' filthy' and' dirty') having almost the same meaning and are repeated so as to make the text more emphatic . </Li> <P> Scholars of classical Western rhetoric have divided figures of speech into two main categories: schemes and tropes . Schemes (from the Greek schēma, form or shape) are figures of speech that change the ordinary or expected pattern of words . For example, the phrase, "John, my best friend" uses the scheme known as apposition . Tropes (from the Greek trepein, to turn) change the general meaning of words . An example of a trope is irony, which is the use of words to convey the opposite of their usual meaning ("For Brutus is an honorable man; / So are they all, all honorable men"). </P>

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