- figure of speech by WordNet
nounLanguage used in a figurative or nonliteral sense.synonyms: trope, figure, image
- Metonymy by Webster's
(n.) A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests it; as, we say, a man keeps a good...
- Tropical by Webster's
(n.) Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope;...
- Metalepsis by Webster's
(n.) The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations or the union of...
- Tropologize by Webster's
(v.t.) To use in a tropological sense, as a word; to make a trope of.