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It is a simile
could eat a horse
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It's a figure of speech meaning that it is too late for something.
If Moonlight literally refers to the light of the moon (which cannot actually bathe) - then the figure of speech is Personification (treating something which is not a person, as if it were a person). If Moonlight is the name of a horse, or a cow, there is no figure of speech here.
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It is a simile
could eat a horse
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If you are referring to the line 'A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse!' then no, there was no real horse, it was a figure of speech. A clever play on words by William Shakespeare.
It's a figure of speech meaning that it is too late for something.
A part of speech -- there are eight -- defines the classification of a word.For example, run is a verb, house is a noun and so forth.A figure of speech is a phrase used for emphasis which is not real.For example, 'you eat like a horse' doesn't mean that the person eats standing on all fours with chin in trough munching on oats. That figure of speech means that the person consumes more than average amounts of food.So a figure of speech is not a part of speech in the sense implied by your question.Another answer:'Figure of speech' is a noun phrase.
this figure is a winged flying horse
If Moonlight literally refers to the light of the moon (which cannot actually bathe) - then the figure of speech is Personification (treating something which is not a person, as if it were a person). If Moonlight is the name of a horse, or a cow, there is no figure of speech here.
A hippocampus was a half horse and half sea horse figure.
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost uses the figure of speech of personification to give human qualities to the woods and the owner's horse, creating a sense of mystery and depth in the poem. Another example is "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, which uses the figure of speech of symbolism in the form of the raven to represent the narrator's descent into madness and despair.