A figure of speech is a particular shaping of speech. An epistolary technique which consists of distancing yourself not from the norm common to all, but from another writer. A detour which consists of giving the statement another turn, because literary writing means concealing one's thought, not placing it within everyone's reach; which thought is reserved for initiates. Stylistics, a major discipline in the literature curriculum, because stylistics is a multidimensional orientation, which is located at the composite of language sciences and literature sciences.