At least it used to be an interesting figure of speech.

Or it may be a figure of speech for thinking a great deal about death.

He had always thought it was a figure of speech.

"She told me that was just a figure of speech."

"Which I guess is no longer just a figure of speech."

Never heard that figure of speech before, but I will remember it now.

He had started to say so, but that was a figure of speech.

I was just using that as a figure of speech, so sorry.

Then she said that was only a figure of speech.

He had considered that too to be a figure of speech.

This means that fewer stylistic devices are used, and the poetry is often in the form of a narrative.

The easiest stylistic device to find is a simile, because you only have to look for the words "as" or "like".

The effect of this stylistic device is that the alternating chapters enlighten each other.

These were to identify, but not describe or interpret, the stylistic devices present in a given text.

But he rarely relies on stylistic devices alone (images, symbols, etc.) to present his point of view.

They pioneered production techniques and stylistic devices used throughout the twentieth century.

Peking opera and its stylistic devices have appeared in many Chinese films.

Illeism is sometimes used in literature as a stylistic device.

Both direct and indirect speech are stylistic devices for conveying messages.

Use of numbers as a stylistic device was commonly found in medieval poetics.