Thesaurus:figure of speech
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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.