Thesaurus / figure speech
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synonyms for figure speech
- aggrandizement
- amplification
- baloney
- boasting
- caricature
- crock
- elaboration
- embroidery
- enlargement
- exaltation
- excess
- extravagance
- fabrication
- falsehood
- fancy
- fantasy
- figure of speech
- fish story
- flight of fancy
- hogwash
- hyperbole
- hyperbolism
- inflation
- jazz
- line
- magnification
- misjudgment
- misrepresentation
- overemphasis
- overestimation
- overstatement
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- rant
- romance
- stretch
- tall story
- untruth
- whopper
- yarn
- quotation
- charge
- citation
- connotation
- denotation
- implication
- imputation
- indication
- inference
- innuendo
- insinuation
- intimation
- mention
- remark
- statement
- suggestion
- casual remark
- figure of speech
- incidental mention
- play on words
- baloney
- excess
- fabrication
- falsehood
- fantasy
- hyperbole
- misjudgment
- misrepresentation
- untruth
- aggrandizement
- amplification
- boasting
- caricature
- coloring
- crock
- elaboration
- embroidery
- emphasis
- enlargement
- exaltation
- extravagance
- fancy
- hogwash
- inflation
- line
- magnification
- overemphasis
- overestimation
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- rant
- romance
- stretch
- whopper
- yarn
- figure of speech
- fish story
- flight of fancy
- jazz
- tall story
- adumbration
- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- analogue
- analogy
- anaphora
- anticlimax
- antistrophe
- antithesis
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- asyndeton
- bathos
- stylistic device
- comparison
- conceit
- device
- echoism
- ellipsis
- euphemism
- euphuism
- exaggeration
- expression
- flourish
- flower
- hyperbole
- image
- imagery
- irony
- litotes
- malapropism
- manner of speaking
- metaphor
- metonymy
- onomatopoeia
- ornament
- oxymoron
- parable
- paradox
- parallel
- personification
- proteron
- rhetoric
- sarcasm
- satire
- simile
- synecdoche
- trope
- tropology
- turn of phrase
- understatement
- way of speaking
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On this page you'll find 185 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to figure speech, such as: aggrandizement, amplification, baloney, boasting, caricature, and coloring.
How to use figure speech in a sentence
Alessandro turned a grateful look on Ramona as he translated this speech, so in unison with Indian modes of thought and feeling.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSONAnd so this is why the clever performer cannot reproduce the effect of a speech of Demosthenes or Daniel Webster.
EXPRESSIVE VOICE CULTUREJESSIE ELDRIDGE SOUTHWICKHe was tall and of familiar figure, and the firelight was playing in the tossed curls of his short, fair hair.
THE BONDBOYGEORGE W. (GEORGE WASHINGTON) OGDENTheir opportunities and earnings are relatively small, and in order to live they must figure closely.
READINGS IN MONEY AND BANKINGCHESTER ARTHUR PHILLIPSHe said no more in words, but his little blue eyes had an eloquence that left nothing to mere speech.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINIIt was when the face and figure of a great tragedian began to haunt her imagination and stir her senses.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINTressan fell suddenly to groaning and wringing his hands a pathetic figure had it been less absurd.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINIHer tall figure—she was taller than he by at least three inches—was beautiful in its commanding, yet not vulgar, self-possession.
BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENSBut suppose we say, since one figure is as good as another, that it has been increased a hundred times.
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCKAfter pondering over Mr. Blackbird's speech for a few moments he raised his head.
THE TALE OF GRANDFATHER MOLEARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY