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analogy
noun. agreement, similarity
figure of speech
noun. turn of expression
- adumbration
- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- analogue
- analogy
- anaphora
- anticlimax
- antistrophe
- antithesis
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- asyndeton
- bathos
- communication that is not meant literally; 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
likeness
noun. correspondence in appearance; something that corresponds
- Xerox
- affinity
- agreement
- alikeness
- analogousness
- analogy
- appearance
- carbon
- clone
- comparableness
- comparison
- conformity
- copy
- counterpart
- dead ringer
- delineation
- depiction
- ditto
- double
- effigy
- equality
- equivalence
- facsimile
- form
- guise
- identicalness
- identity
- image
- knock-off
- lookalike
- model
- parallelism
- photocopy
- photograph
- picture
- portrait
- replica
- representation
- reproduction
- resemblance
- sameness
- semblance
- similarity
- simile
- similitude
- study
- uniformity
parallelism
noun. likeness
- Xerox
- affinity
- agreement
- alikeness
- analogousness
- analogy
- appearance
- carbon
- clone
- comparableness
- comparison
- conformity
- copy
- correspondence
- counterpart
- dead ringer
- delineation
- depiction
- ditto
- double
- effigy
- equality
- equivalence
- facsimile
- form
- guise
- identicalness
- identity
- image
- knock-off
- lookalike
- model
- photocopy
- photograph
- picture
- portrait
- replica
- representation
- reproduction
- resemblance
- sameness
- semblance
- similarity
- simile
- similitude
- study
- uniformity
- uniformness
resemblance
noun. correspondence, similarity
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.