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figure of speech
Overview of noun figure-of-speech
The noun figure of speech has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) trope, figure of speech, figure, image -- (language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun figure-of-speech
1 sense of figure of speech
Sense 1
trope, figure of speech, figure, image
=> rhetorical device
=> device
=> expressive style, style
=> communication
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun figure-of-speech
1 sense of figure of speech
Sense 1
trope, figure of speech, figure, image
=> conceit
=> irony
=> hyperbole, exaggeration
=> kenning
=> metaphor
=> metonymy
=> oxymoron
=> personification, prosopopoeia
=> simile
=> synecdoche
=> zeugma
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun figure-of-speech
1 sense of figure of speech
Sense 1
trope, figure of speech, figure, image
=> rhetorical device
Antonyms of noun figure-of-speech
Member Holonyms of noun figure-of-speech
Substance Holonyms of noun figure-of-speech
Part Holonyms of noun figure-of-speech
Member Meronyms of noun figure-of-speech
Substance Meronyms of noun figure-of-speech
Part Meronyms of noun figure-of-speech
Meronyms of noun figure-of-speech
Holonyms of noun figure-of-speech
Attributes of noun figure-of-speech
Derived Forms of noun figure-of-speech
Domain of noun figure-of-speech
Domain Terms of noun figure-of-speech
1 sense of figure of speech
Sense 1
trope, figure of speech, figure, image
USAGE TERM>(noun) blind alley#2
USAGE TERM>(noun) lens#3
Familiarity of noun figure-of-speech
figure of speech used as a noun is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun figure-of-speech
1 sense of figure of speech
Sense 1
trope, figure of speech, figure, image
> rhetorical device
=> anacoluthia, anacoluthon
=> asyndeton
=> repetition
=> anastrophe, inversion
=> antiphrasis
=> antithesis
=> antinomasia
=> apophasis
=> aposiopesis
=> apostrophe
=> catachresis
=> chiasmus
=> climax
=> conversion
=> ecphonesis, exclamation
=> emphasis
=> enallage
=> epanorthosis
=> epiplexis
=> hendiadys
=> hypallage
=> hyperbaton
=> hypozeugma
=> hypozeuxis
=> hysteron proteron
=> litotes, meiosis
=> onomatopoeia
=> paralepsis, paraleipsis, paralipsis, preterition
=> paregmenon
=> polysyndeton
=> prolepsis
=> wellerism
=> trope, figure of speech, figure, image
Meronyms of noun figure-of-speech
1 sense of figure of speech
Holonyms of noun figure-of-speech
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