Thesaurus:figure of speech

Thesaurus

figure of speech

English

Noun

Sense: figurative, not literally meant, word or phrase

Synonyms

• figure of speech
• turn of phrase

Hyponyms

• adynaton
• antithesis    [⇒ thesaurus]
• apostrophe
• epizeuxis
• euphemism
• hendiadys
• hyperbole
• laconism
• meiosis
• metaphor
• metonym
• oxymoron
• paradiastole
• parallelism
• personification
• pleonasm
• ploce
• prosopopeia
• simile
• synecdoche
• trope

See also

• Category:en:Figures of speech

Further reading

• “521. metaphor” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “figure of speech” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.