N. comparison, collation, contrast, # identification, comparative estimate, relative estimate, relativity, simile, similitude, analogy (similarity) 17, allegory, matching, pattern-matching, ratio, proportion (number) 84, discrimination 465, indiscrimination 465a, identification 465b

V. compare to, compare with, collate, confront, place side by side, juxtapose, set against one another, pit against one another, contrast, balance, identify, draw a parallel, parallel, compare notes, institute a comparison, parva componere magnis

Adj. comparative, metaphorical, compared with, comparable, judged by comparison

Adv. relatively, as compared with

Phr. comparisons are odious, "comparisons are odorous"

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