Category:English figures of speech

English terms whose interpretation is not strictly literal, but are used in figurative ways or for special effect.

• Category:English aphorisms: English phrases that convey basic concepts in a manner short and easily memorable. Typically conveying a concise statement of a scientific principle or truth.
• Category:English catchphrases: English phrases that are popularized through repeated use.
• Category:English dysphemisms: English dysphemisms (offensive, vulgar or otherwise negative terms used in place of a neutral alternative).
• Category:English euphemisms: English terms that indirectly refer to something unpleasant or controversial.
• Category:English hyperboles: English terms used as exaggerations for emphasis, rather than being taken literally.
• Category:English idioms: English phrases understood by subjective, as opposed to literal meanings.
• Category:English litotes: English litotical expressions or terms commonly used in litotes (stating something by denying its opposite).
• Category:English meioses: English meiotic expressions or terms commonly used in meiosis (downplaying the focal point of a statement for effect).
• Category:English proverbs: English phrases popularly known as representations of common sense.
• Category:English sarcastic terms: English terms that are used sarcastically.
• Category:English set phrases: English An established expression whose wording is subject to little or no variation.
• Category:English similes: English figures of speech in which one thing is compared to another.
• Category:English synecdoches: English figures of speech in which a term for a part of something is used to refer to the whole pars pro toto, or vice versa totum pro parte.