manner of speaking
NOUN
figure of speech
Synonyms
WEAK
adumbration
allegory
alliteration
allusion
analogue
analogy
anaphora
anticlimax
antistrophe
antithesis
aposiopesis
apostrophe
asyndeton
bathos
comparison
conceit
device
echoism
ellipsis
euphemism
euphuism
exaggeration
expression
flourish
flower
hyperbole
image
imagery
irony
litotes
malapropism
metaphor
metonymy
onomatopoeia
ornament
oxymoron
parable
paradox
parallel
personification
proteron
rhetoric
sarcasm
satire
simile
stylistic device
synecdoche
trope
tropology
turn of phrase
understatement
way of speaking
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
