Metonymy


Synonyms for metonymy
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
manner of speaking
onomatopoeia
oxymoron
proteron
synecdoche
trope
tropology
turn of phrase
way of speaking

Synonyms
noun figure of speech, implied comparison

symbol
image
analogy

similitude
emblem
personification

allegory
hope
trope

Antonyms

plain speech

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