Figure
Of rhetorical device. May also be referred to as figure of speech, image and trope.
Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense.
This concept's ID is @1~37972
Period
- dawn
An opening time period; "it was the dawn of the Roman Empire".
- evening
A later concluding time period; "it was the evening of the Roman Empire".
- rainy day
A (future) time of financial need; "I am saving for a rainy day".
Hit
- blockbuster
An unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a...
- sleeper
An unexpected hit; "that movie was the sleeper of the summer".
Also contains
- metaphor
A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not...
- irony
A trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs.
- metonymy
Substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in...
- 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; "`Mr. Pickwick...
- summer
The period of finest development, happiness, or beauty; "the golden summer of his life".
- period
The end or completion of something; "death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon...
- domino effect
The consequence of one event setting off a chain of similar events (like a falling...
- conceit
An elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things.
- exaggeration
Extravagant exaggeration.
- kenning
Conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse...
- lens
(metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood; "the writer is the...
- cakewalk
An easy accomplishment; "winning the tournament was a cakewalk for him"; "invading Iraq...
- flip side
A different aspect of something (especially the opposite aspect); "the flip side of your...
- oxymoron
Conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence').
- personification
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...
- housecleaning
(figurative) the act of reforming by the removal of unwanted personnel or practices...
- blind alley
(figurative) a course of action that is unproductive and offers no hope of improvement;...
- bell ringer
Something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal; "the new advertising campaign...
- goldbrick
Anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless.