tropology (noun) figure of speech: turn of expression
Sinonime: adumbration,
allegory, alliteration,
allusion, analogue,
analogy, anaphora, anticlimax, antistrophe,
antithesis, aposiopesis, apostrophe, asyndeton, bathos, communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device,
comparison,
conceit,
device, echoism, ellipsis,
euphemism, euphuism,
exaggeration,
expression,
flourish,
flower,
hyperbole,
image,
imagery,
irony, litotes, malapropism, manner of speaking,
metaphor, metonymy, onomatopoeia,
ornament, oxymoron,
parable,
paradox,
parallel,
personification, proteron,
rhetoric,
sarcasm,
satire,
simile, synecdoche, trope, tropology, turn of phrase, understatement, way of speaking