Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

speaking, colloquialism. phrase &c 566; figure, trope, metaphor, enallage†, catachresis†; metonymy [Gramm.], synecdoche [Sem.]; autonomasia†, irony, figurativeness &c adj.; image, imagery; metalepsis†, type, anagoge†, simile, personification, prosopopoeia†, allegory, apologue†, parable, fable; allusion, adumbration; application. exaggeration, hyperbole &c 549. association, association of ideas (analogy) 514.1 V. employ a metaphor &c n.; personify, allegorize, adumbrate, shadow forth, apply, allude to. Adj. metaphorical, figurative, catachrestical†, typical, tralatitious†, parabolic, allegorical, allusive, anagogical†; ironical; colloquial; tropical. Adv. so to speak, so to say, so to express oneself; as it were. Phr. mutato nomine de te fabula narratur [Lat.] [Horace].