Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense.

synoniemen: figure, figure of speech, image.

Roget 521: figure of speech; facon de parler [Fr.], way of speaking, colloquialism.    phrase etc. 566; figure, trope, metaphor, enallage^†, catachresis^†; metonymy [Gramm.], synecdoche [Sem.]; autonomasia^†, irony, figurativeness etc. adj.; image, imagery; metalepsis^†, type, anagoge^†, simile, personification, prosopopoeia^†, allegory, apologue^†, parable, fable; allusion, adumbration; application.    exaggeration, hyperbole etc. 549.    association, association of ideas (analogy) 514.1 ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: manier van spreken, figuurlijke uitdrukking, stijlfiguur, beeldspraak, troop, trope
Pools: figura retoryczna