Thesaurus:figure of speech

Thesaurus:figure of speech

THESAURUS

figure of speech

English

Synonyms

• figure of speech

• turn of phrase

Hyponyms

• antithesis    [WS]

• epizeuxis

• apostrophe

• trope

• metaphor

• metonym

• synecdoche

• personification

• simile

• euphemism

• hyperbole

• adynaton

• laconism

• meiosis

• oxymoron

• paradiastole

• parallelism

• pleonasm

• ploce

• prosopopeia

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.