metaphor

Roget-categorie 521

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.8. Nature of ideas communicated
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#521. Metaphor

zelfstandig naamwoord

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

werkwoord

employ a metaphor etc. n. — personify, allegorize, adumbrate, shadow forth, apply, allude to.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

metaphorical, figurative, catachrestical^†, typical, tralatitious^†, parabolic, allegorical, allusive, anagogical^† — ironical — colloquial — tropical.

bijwoord

so to speak, so to say, so to express oneself — as it were.

uitdrukking

mutato nomine de te fabula narratur [Lat.] [Horace].

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