Figures Of Speech Quotes

The act of metaphor then was a thrust at truth and lie, depending where you were: inside, safe, or outside, lost.

No. See, when you throw up you're vomiting, but when you throw down you're starting a fight, as in throwing down the gauntlet.""Ohhhh," he said. "I thought you were speaking literally.""I do beg your pardon. Let's literally throw up, but figuratively throw down.

Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.

Trevanian