figure of speech
- noun (n)
Meaning: communication that is not meant literally stylistic device
Synonyms:
adumbration
allegory
alliteration
allusion
analogue
anaphora
anticlimax
antistrophe
antithesis
aposiopesis
apostrophe
asyndeton
bathos
comparison
conceit
echoism
ellipsis
euphemism
euphuism
exaggeration
hyperbole
image
imagery
irony
litotes
metaphor
metonymy
onomatopoeia
oxymoron
parable
paradox
parallel
personification
proteron
rhetoric
satire
simile
synecdoche
trope
tropology
turn of phrase
understatement
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