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Rhetorical DevicesBy Wang HuiminEmail: sophy_shining@163.comRhetorical Devices (修辞手段) Figures of Speech (修辞格、辞格)1In classical rhetoric: The figure of speech was termed “trope”. Tropes have to do with the way words are made to mean other than what they would normally imply, involving the deviation from its ordinary and literal meaning. They are ways of making language figurative. Tropes include metaphor, irony, and synecdoche.In the sixteenth century: The term “figure of speech” was the synonym of “scheme”. Schemes comprised the figures that arranged words into schematized patterns of foregr