What is another word for "metaphor"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "metaphor": abuse, accent, adumbrate, adumbration, allegorical, allegorize, allegory, alliteration, alliterative, allude, allusion, allusive, altiloquence, altiloquent, ambiguity, anagoge, anagogical, anagram, analogy, antiphrasis, antithesis, antithetical, apologue, application, apply, approximation, archaic, archaism, argot, artificial, association, assumed, assumption, babu, barbarism, bare, belief, black, blue, bombast.

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