Metaphor
Nouns
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figure of speech
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way of speaking, colloquialism. phrase etc. Phrase
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figure, trope, metaphor, enallage, catachresis
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metonymy [Gramm.], synecdoche [Sem.]
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autonomasia, irony, figurativeness etc. adj.
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image, imagery
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metalepsis, type, anagoge, simile, personification, prosopopoeia, allegory, apologue, parable, fable
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allusion, adumbration
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application. exaggeration, hyperbole etc. Exaggeration. association, association of ideas (analogy) Existence4-supposition">Supposition.1
Verbs
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employ a metaphor etc. n.
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personify, allegorize, adumbrate, shadow forth, apply, allude to.
Adjectives
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metaphorical, figurative, catachrestical, typical, tralatitious, parabolic, allegorical, allusive, anagogical
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ironical
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colloquial
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tropical.
Adverbs
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so to speak, so to say, so to express oneself
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as it were.