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].