Definition for Figure of speech:

• language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

Synonyms for Figure of speech:

• n.

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  • aphorism,
  • metonymy,
  • irony,
  • parable,
  • synecdoche,
  • axiom,
  • satire,
  • apostrophe,
  • malapropism,
  • binomial,
  • comparison,
  • battle cry,
  • adumbration,
  • Hysteron Proteron,
  • onomatopoeia,
  • analogue,
  • epic simile,
  • parallel,
  • repetition,
  • sarcasm,
  • cheer,
  • allegory,
  • understatement,
  • Homeric simile,
  • personification,
  • paradox,
  • litotes,
  • euphuism,
  • cite,
  • citation,
  • oxymoron,
  • hyperbole.
  •allusion (noun)
  • figure speech,
  • in sinuation,
  • play words,
  • in sinuations,
  • casual remarks,
  • incidental mentions,
  • re mark,
  • de-notations,
  • de notation,
  • in-sinuations,
  • re-marks,
  • de-notation,
  • de notations,
  • in-sinuation,
  • re marks.
  •communication (noun)
  • figure of speech,
  • trope,
  • figure,
  • image.
  •exaggeration (noun)
  • overestimation,
  • exaltation,
  • overemphasises,
  • elaboration,
  • tall talk,
  • overemphasis,
  • romance,
  • tall story,
  • extravagance,
  • Hyperbolism,
  • hogwash.
  •phrase (noun)
  • locution,
  • clause,
  • cliche,
  • epigram,
  • maxim,
  • expression,
  • phraseology,
  • catchphrase,
  • proverb,
  • phrase,
  • metaphor,
  • mannerism,
  • adage,
  • slogan,
  • terminology,
  • motto,
  • sentence,
  • Verbalism,
  • euphemism,
  • idiom,
  • paragraph.
  •tall talk (noun)
  • over-statements,
  • over statement,
  • over statements,
  • over-statement,
  • tall-talk.
  •turn of expression (noun)
  • device,
  • bathos,
  • antistrophe,
  • manner of speaking,
  • analogy,
  • anaphora,
  • anticlimax,
  • ellipsis,
  • communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device,
  • Tropology,
  • way of speaking,
  • proteron,
  • aposiopesis,
  • Asyndeton,
  • turn of phrase,
  • flourish,
  • ornament,
  • antithesis,
  • flower,
  • conceit,
  • echoism,
  • rhetoric.

• Other synonyms:

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  • simile.

Hypernym for Figure of speech:

• n.

  • communication
    metaphor, personification, kenning, oxymoron, prosopopoeia, zeugma, conceit, hyperbole, irony, simile, synecdoche, exaggeration, metonymy.

Hyponym for Figure of speech:

• n.

  • communication
    rhetorical device.