- A figure of speech - Artistic device - Figurative use of a word - Figure of speech - Recurring theme - The use of a word or expression in a different sense from
that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as
changed from the original signification to another, for the sake of
giving life or emphasis to an idea; a figure of speech. - The word or expression so used.
- A figure of speech - Figure of speech - A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or
more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or
imaginative comparison.