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Figures of speech are used to deviate from ordinary language use in order to produce a rhetorical effect.
True
Schemes and tropes are two categories used to classify figures of speech.
True
Polysyndeton is a figure of speech where a conjunction is repeated before every element in a list.
True
Metaphor is a figure of speech that describes one thing as something that it clearly is in order to lead the mind to compare them.
False
Classical rhetoricians classified figures of speech into three categories.
False
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