FIGURE OF SPEECH as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
   Synonym(s)
   • figure (what does figure mean?)
   • image (what does image mean?)
   • trope (what does trope mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) figure of speech is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • rhetorical device (what does rhetorical device mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • irony (what does irony mean?)
   • hyperbole (what does hyperbole mean?)
   • exaggeration (what does exaggeration mean?)
   • kenning (what does kenning mean?)
   • metaphor (what does metaphor mean?)
   • metonymy (what does metonymy mean?)
   • oxymoron (what does oxymoron mean?)
   • personification (what does personification mean?)
   • prosopopoeia (what does prosopopoeia mean?)
   • simile (what does simile mean?)
   • synecdoche (what does synecdoche mean?)
   • zeugma (what does zeugma mean?)