All metaphor synonyms

noun metaphor

• symbol — something used for or regarded as representing something else; a material object representing something, often something immaterial; emblem, token, or sign.
• image — a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
• analogy — If you make or draw an analogy between two things, you show that they are similar in some way.
• similitude — likeness; resemblance: a similitude of habits.
• personification — the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.
• allegory — An allegory is a story, poem, or painting in which the characters and events are symbols of something else. Allegories are often moral, religious, or political.
• hope — Anthony, pen name of Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins.
• metonymy — a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part, as “scepter” for “sovereignty,” or “the bottle” for “strong drink,” or “count heads (or noses)” for “count people.”.
• trope — 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.
• figure of speech — any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect. Compare trope (def 1).
• comparison — When you make a comparison, you consider two or more things and discover the differences between them.
• representation — the act of representing.
• emblem — A heraldic device or symbolic object as a distinctive badge of a nation, organization, or family.