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Home ยป Figures of Speech

Aesthetics: Figures of Speech Metonym

Parent Term

  • Figures of Speech

Sibling Terms

  • Affirmation
  • Animals compared to objects
  • Animals compared to people
  • Ants
  • Armor
  • Arrow
  • Bestial imagery
  • Bird
  • Bloom
  • Breath
  • Bride / Bridal
  • Butterfly
  • Calf rope
  • Chains
  • Chess
  • Chess imagery stalemate
  • Clay
  • Clean flame
  • Cloud
  • Coal dust
  • Coupled
  • Creditor
  • Death / Dead imagery
  • Dehumanizing
  • Desert island
  • Disease
  • Drained marsh
  • Drama / Theatre imagery
  • Electricity
  • Embroidery
  • Exoticism
  • Expression
  • Eyes
  • Face
  • Fertilise / Fertility imagery
  • Fire
  • Fish
  • Flag
  • Flood imagery
  • Food and drink imagery
  • Gambling imagery
  • Ghost
  • Glass
  • Glove
  • Gull
  • Harvest
  • Hunting metaphor / imagery
  • Hyperbole
  • Invisible wire
  • Island of silence
  • Jackal
  • King and/or queen
  • Locked
  • Loom
  • Mask
  • Medical / Surgical
  • Metaphor
  • Military analogy
  • Military terminology
  • Mirage
  • Mirror
  • Monument
  • Moth
  • Musical imagery
  • Native American
  • Negation
  • Old maid
  • Oxymoron
  • Paint
  • Parrot
  • Pathetic fallacy
  • Pencil
  • People compared to animals
  • Periodical filth
  • Personification
  • Photography
  • Pilgrim
  • Planets
  • Planting
  • Poisoned
  • Puppy
  • Rabbit
  • Rain
  • Rape
  • Rats
  • Replica
  • Ripple
  • Sacrifice
  • Scarecrow
  • Scientific
  • Scratch
  • Scythe
  • Seed
  • Shadow
  • Sheep
  • Shell
  • Simile
  • Simile-mask
  • Skeleton
  • Skull
  • Slot machine
  • Space program
  • Stage manager
  • Stencil
  • Stone
  • Swallows
  • Swine
  • Synesthesia
  • Talisman
  • Technological imagery
  • Threads
  • Thunderclap
  • Tomb
  • Tornado
  • Toy bear / teddybear
  • Toys
  • Train / locomotive imagery
  • Treadmill
  • Vernacular
  • Violent in figurative sense
  • Voice
  • Water
  • Weaponry imagery
  • Wild breath
  • Woodpile