All malapropisms synonyms

noun malapropisms

• atrocities — acts of extreme cruelty, esp against prisoners or civilians in wartime
• barbarities — Plural form of barbarity.
• cruelties — Plural form of cruelty.
• inhumanities — Plural form of inhumanity.
• corruptions — Plural form of corruption.
• improprieties — Plural form of impropriety.
• localisms — Plural form of localism.
• allegories — Plural form of allegory.
• allusions — Plural form of allusion.
• analogues — Plural form of analogue.
• analogies — A comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
• anticlimaxes — Plural form of anticlimax.
• antistrophes — Plural form of antistrophe.
• antitheses — opposition; contrast: the antithesis of right and wrong.
• aposiopeses — Plural form of aposiopesis.
• apostrophes — Plural form of apostrophe.
• asyndeta — Plural form of asyndeton.
• comparisons — Plural form of comparison.
• conceits — Plural form of conceit.
• devices — a thing made for a particular purpose; an invention or contrivance, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
• ellipses — Plural form of ellipse.
• euphemisms — Plural form of euphemism.
• euphuisms — Plural form of euphuism.
• expressions — Plural form of expression.
• flourishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flourish.
• flowers — the blossom of a plant.
• 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.
• barbarisms — Plural form of barbarism.
• injuries — Plural form of injury.