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Answers:This site lists the top 20 figures of speech and explains them. They are numbered 1-20, and you can click on each one to get examples. http://grammar.about.com/od/rhetoricstyle/a/20figures.htm

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Answers:busy as a bee fat as a pig fast as a racehorse its raining cats and dogs eat like a bird dumb as a doorknob busy as a beaver dumb as a box of rocks swims like a fish sinks like a rock happy as a clam

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Answers:This could help: http://grammar.about.com/od/rhetoricstyle/a/20figures.htm

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Question:Mostly common ones please..........thank you!!!! i need to know 20 figures of speeches commonly used in 2008.... Can someone help...I would really appreciate it!!! thanks to everyone who "actually" helped....and i already had some...i was just trying to think of some more........but thanks anyway...

Answers:Figure speech are the Elements in Literature, like in a poem are the Similes, Metaphors, Allegory, Vision, Oxymoron, etc. Examples: Metaphor: "My life's the stage of a comedy". Simile: "Juliet's like the sunshine upon my face". Here's a great site to help you out with: http://www.examples-help.org.uk/ This one also, that has Many Examples for each category: http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art14105.asp

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