Thesaurus:figure of speech
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]Sense: figurative, not literally meant, word or phrase
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]- adynaton
- antithesis [⇒ thesaurus]
- apostrophe
- epizeuxis
- euphemism
- hendiadys
- hyperbole
- laconism
- meiosis
- metaphor
- metonym
- oxymoron
- paradiastole
- parallelism
- personification
- pleonasm
- ploce
- prosopopeia
- simile
- synecdoche
- trope
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “521. metaphor” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “figure of speech” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.