Figure Of Speech (Noun)

Meaning

Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense.

Classification

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.

Synonyms

• Figure
• Image
• Trope

Hypernyms

• Rhetorical Device

Hyponyms

• Irony
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Oxymoron
• Personification
• Synecdoche
• Zeugma
• Conceit
• Hyperbole
• Kenning
• Metonymy