N. figure of speech, facon de parler, way # of speaking,
colloquialism, phrase, figure,
trope,
metaphor,
enallage,
catachresis,
metonymy,
synecdoche, autonomasia|,
irony, figurativeness, image,
imagery,
metalepsis, type,
anagoge,
simile,
personification, prosopopoeia,
allegory,
apologue, parable,
fable, allusion,
adumbration, application,
exaggeration,
hyperbole, association, association of ideas (analogy) 514a
Adj. metaphorical,
figurative,
catachrestical, typical,
tralatitious,
parabolic,
allegorical,
allusive,
anagogical,
ironical,
colloquial, tropical
Adv. so to speak, so to say, so to express oneself, as it were
Phr. mutato nomine de te fabula narratur
N. misinterpretation,
misapprehension, misunderstanding, misacceptation|, misconstruction, misapplication,
catachresis, eisegesis,
cross-reading, cross-purposes, mistake, misrepresentation,
perversion,
exaggeration, false coloring, false construction, abuse of terms,
parody,
travesty,
falsification V. misinterpret,
misapprehend, misunderstand, misconceive,
misspell,
mistranslate,
misconstrue, misapply, mistake, misrepresent,
pervert, explain wrongly, misstate,
garble,
distort, detort|,
travesty, play upon words, stretch the sense, strain the sense, stretch the meaning, strain the meaning, wrest the sense, wrest the meaning, explain away, put a bad construction on, put a false construction on, give a false coloring, be at cross purposes, play at cross purposes
