figure of speech
intentional deviation from ordinary (literal) language, chosen to produce a rhetorical effect or for other purposes, such as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, personification or simile
synecdoche
use of a term for a part of something to refer to the whole or vice versa
personification
representation of a thing or abstraction as a person
scheme
figure of speech that relies on the structure of the sentence
animalisation
artistic or literary device in which an abstraction is represented by a animal
hyperbole
exaggeration as rhetorical device
metonymy
figure of speech where a thing or concept is referred to indirectly by the name of something closely associated with it
oxymoron
rhetorical device that uses an ostensible self-contradiction to illustrate a rhetorical point or to reveal a paradox
simile
figure of speech indicating a similarity explicitly,e.g. using "like" or "as", contrasting to metaphor in which the similarity is implicit, e.g. of the form "A is B"
anacoenosis
figure of speech
understatement
stylistic device
laurels
figure of speech
cock and bull story
English phrase
metaphor
figure of speech in which one thing is asserted to be another when it is in fact not so, based on properties of the latter that apply to the former, pointing to similarity
meiosis
euphemistic figure of speech
barefoot and pregnant
phrase promoting the housewifery of women