Manner of speaking
Synonyms for manner of speaking
noun turn of expression
allegory
allusion
analogy
anticlimax
antithesis
bathos
comparison
conceit
device
euphemism
euphuism
exaggeration
expression
flourish
flower
hyperbole
image
imagery
irony
metaphor
ornament
parable
paradox
parallel
personification
rhetoric
sarcasm
satire
simile
analogue
understatement
adumbration
alliteration
anaphora
antistrophe
aposiopesis
apostrophe
asyndeton
communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device
echoism
ellipsis
litotes
malapropism
metonymy
onomatopoeia
oxymoron
proteron
synecdoche
trope
tropology
turn of phrase
way of speaking
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