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

V. employ -metaphor, personify, allegorize, adumbrate, shadow forth, apply, allude to

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