images — a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
ironies — the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: the irony of her reply, “How nice!” when I said I had to work all weekend.
litotes — understatement, especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in “not bad at all.”.
metaphors — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
oxymora — a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.”.
parables — a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson.
parallels — extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging: parallel rows of trees.
satires — the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
similes — a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose.”. Compare metaphor.
tropes — Rhetoric. any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense. an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.