What is another word for "figure"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "figure": abuse, accent, adumbrate, adumbration, allegorical, allegorize, allegory, allude, allusion, allusive, ambiguity, anagoge, anagogical, anagram, analogy, antiphrasis, apologue, application, apply, archaic, archaism, argot, arrange, association, babu, barbarism, black, brogue, broken, byword, call, cant, card, catachresis, catachrestical, charmer, circumlocution, clairvoyant, clinch, clothe.

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