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| the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning |
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| a sensation produced in one modality when a stimulus is applied to another modality, as when the hearing of a certain sound induces the visualization of a certain color. |
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| a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special |
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| a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special |
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| the formation of a word, as cuckoo or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent. |
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| the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character. |
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| A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison |
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| a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. |
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| obvious and intentional exaggeration. |
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| to state or represent less strongly or strikingly than the facts would bear out; set forth in restrained, moderate, or weak terms |
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| understatement, esp. that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary |
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| agreement in direction, tendency, or character; the state or condition of being parallel. |
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| the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning |
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| To present an indication or a suggestion of beforehand; presage. |
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| of or pertaining to words |
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| a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect |
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| the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc. |
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| a sentence consisting of two or more clauses that are parallel in structure. |
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| a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based |
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| a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part |
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| any member of a class of words that are formally distinguished in many languages, as in English by taking the past ending in -ed, that function as the main elements of predicates, that typically express action, state, or a relation between two things, and that (when inflected) may be inflected for tense, aspect, voice, mood, and to show agreement with their subject or object. |
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| any member of a class of words that in many languages are distinguished in form, as partly in English by the ending -ly, or by functioning as modifiers of verbs or clauses, and in some languages, as Latin and English, also as modifiers of adjectives or other adverbs or adverbial phrases, as very, well, quickly. Adverbs typically express some relation of place, time, manner, attendant circumstance, degree, cause, inference, result, condition, exception, concession, purpose, or means. |
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| a sentence that, by leaving the completion of its main clause to the end, produces an effect of suspense |
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| A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as |
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| an expression of a general truth or principle, esp. an aphoristic or sententious one |
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