| NOUN | communication | trope, figure of speech, figure, image | language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense |
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| Meaning | language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense. | |
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| Synonyms | figure of speech, figure, image | |
| Narrower | conceit | An elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar / dissimilar things |
| hyperbole, exaggeration | extravagant exaggeration | |
| irony | A trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs | |
| kenning | conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry | |
| metaphor | A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity | |
| metonymy | Substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in 'they counted heads') | |
| oxymoron | conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence') | |
| personification, prosopopoeia | representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature | |
| simile | A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as') | |
| synecdoche | Substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa | |
| zeugma | Use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one | |
| Broader | rhetorical device | A use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) |
| Usage | bell ringer, bull's eye, mark, home run | Something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal |
| blind alley | (figurative) a course of action that is unproductive and offers no hope of improvement | |
| blockbuster, megahit, smash hit | An unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel) | |
| cakewalk | An easy accomplishment | |
| dawn | An opening time period | |
| domino effect | The consequence of one event setting off a chain of similar events (like a falling domino causing a whole row of upended dominos to fall / fall) | |
| evening | A later concluding time period | |
| flip side | A different aspect of something (especially the opposite aspect) | |
| goldbrick | Anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless | |
| helm | A position of leadership | |
| housecleaning | (figurative) the act of reforming by the removal of unwanted personnel or practices or conditions | |
| lens | (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood | |
| period | The end or completion of something | |
| rainy day | A (future) time of financial need | |
| sleeper | An unexpected hit | |
| summer | The period of finest development, happiness, or beauty | |
| Spanish | imagen, metáfora, tropo | |
| Catalan | imatge, trop, tropo | |
| Adjectives | tropical | characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes |
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