Figure of speech

Quality:

Figure of speech - intentional deviation from ordinary (literal) language, chosen to produce a rhetorical effect or for other purposes, such as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, personification or simile. Article “Figure of speech” in English Wikipedia has 42.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 20 references and 10 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Figure of speech”, its content was written by 536 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 806 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 641 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1206 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #802 in September 2002
• Global: #1730 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4530 in July 2013
• Global: #9233 in January 2011

There are 8 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Figure of speech		42.7813
2	Italian (it) Figura retorica		29.1894
3	Arabic (ar) صورة بلاغية		23.7061
4	Persian (fa) شکل بیان		20.2513
5	Ukrainian (uk) Риторичні фігури		14.7683
6	Croatian (hr) Stilska sredstva		9.3573
7	Lithuanian (lt) Retorinė figūra		7.9794
8	Polish (pl) Figura retoryczna		4.1247

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Figure of speech		10 607 238
2	Italian (it) Figura retorica		3 686 297
3	Croatian (hr) Stilska sredstva		990 847
4	Polish (pl) Figura retoryczna		671 781
5	Ukrainian (uk) Риторичні фігури		137 648
6	Lithuanian (lt) Retorinė figūra		60 621
7	Arabic (ar) صورة بلاغية		5 973
8	Persian (fa) شکل بیان		1 304

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Figure of speech		12 767
2	Italian (it) Figura retorica		3 065
3	Croatian (hr) Stilska sredstva		1 239
4	Polish (pl) Figura retoryczna		711
5	Lithuanian (lt) Retorinė figūra		103
6	Ukrainian (uk) Риторичні фігури		85
7	Arabic (ar) صورة بلاغية		53
8	Persian (fa) شکل بیان		32

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Figure of speech		536
2	Italian (it) Figura retorica		179
3	Polish (pl) Figura retoryczna		35
4	Croatian (hr) Stilska sredstva		31
5	Lithuanian (lt) Retorinė figūra		11
6	Ukrainian (uk) Риторичні фігури		6
7	Arabic (ar) صورة بلاغية		5
8	Persian (fa) شکل بیان		3

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) صورة بلاغية		0
2	English (en) Figure of speech		0
3	Persian (fa) شکل بیان		0
4	Croatian (hr) Stilska sredstva		0
5	Italian (it) Figura retorica		0
6	Lithuanian (lt) Retorinė figūra		0
7	Polish (pl) Figura retoryczna		0
8	Ukrainian (uk) Риторичні фігури		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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