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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | figure of speech, implied comparison |
| Synonyms: | allegory, analogy, emblem, hope, image, metonymy, personification, similitude, symbol, trope |
| Notes: | a simile likens one thing to another dissimilar thing and once meant 'resemblance, similarity'; a metaphor acts as if the two compared things are identical and substitutes one for the other |
| Antonyms: | plain speech |
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| Main Entry: | analogy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement, similarity |
| Synonyms: | affinity, alikeness, comparison, correlation, correspondence, equivalence, homology, likeness, metaphor, parallel, relation, relationship, resemblance, semblance, simile, similitude |
| Notes: | analogy is when two different things share characteristics that lead to a comparison between them; an analogue is one of the things compared |
| Antonyms: | disagreement, dissimilarity, unlikeness |
| Main Entry: | comparison |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contrasting; corresponding |
| Synonyms: | allegory, analogizing, analogy, analyzing, association, balancing, bringing together, collating, collation, comparability, connection, contrast, correlation, discrimination, distinguishing, dividing, estimation, example, exemplification, identification, illustration, juxtaposition, likeness, likening, measuring, metaphor, observation, opposition, paralleling, ratio, relating, relation, resemblance, segregation, separation, similarity, testing, weighing |
| Main Entry: | figure of speech |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | turn of expression |
| Synonyms: | adumbration, allegory, alliteration, allusion, analogue, analogy, anaphora, anticlimax, antistrophe, antithesis, aposiopesis, apostrophe, asyndeton, bathos, communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device, comparison, conceit, device, echoism, ellipsis, euphemism, euphuism, exaggeration, expression, flourish, flower, hyperbole, image, imagery, irony, litotes, malapropism, manner of speaking, metaphor, metonymy, onomatopoeia, ornament, oxymoron, parable, paradox, parallel, personification, proteron, rhetoric, sarcasm, satire, simile, synecdoche, trope, tropology, turn of phrase, understatement, way of speaking |
| Main Entry: | hyperbole |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exaggeration |
| Synonyms: | PR, amplification, big talk, coloring, distortion, embellishment, embroidering, enlargement, hype*, laying it on thick, magnification, metaphor, mountain out of molehill, overstatement, tall talk |
| Antonyms: | understatement |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | symbolism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | typology |
| Synonyms: | analogy, comparison, metaphor |
| Main Entry: | simile |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | comparison |
| Synonyms: | analogy, metaphor, similitude |
| Notes: | a simile likens one thing to another dissimilar thing and once meant 'resemblance, similarity'; a metaphor acts as if the two compared things are identical and substitutes one for the other |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Concept: | Comparison. |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
comparison, collation, contrast; identification; comparative estimate, relative estimate., simile, similitude, analogy (similarity); allegory (metaphor).
-verbs
compare to, compare with; collate, confront; place side by side (near); set against one another, pit against one another; contrast, balance., identify, draw a parallel, parallel., compare notes; institute a comparison; parva componere magnis [Lat].
-adjectives
comparative; metaphorical., compared with; comparable; judged by comparison.
-adverbs
relatively (relation); as compared with
-phrases
comparisons are odious; "comparisons are odorous" [Much Ado about Nothing].
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