analogy, allegory, simile, parable, leitmotif, motif, synonym, objective correlative, trope, conceit, cliche, symbolism, neologism, metonymy, illustration, euphemism, idiom, phrase, subtext, fable, juxtaposition, paean, abstract noun, synecdoche, evocation, ode, touchstone, narrative, allusions, signifier, epigraph, shorthand, excrescence, iconography, antipode, microcosm, archetype, epigram, fantasia, metonym, adjective, locution, phantasmagoria, ironies, metafiction, aphorism, sophoclean, limitlessness, depiction, ephemerality, pathetic fallacy, intertextuality, theme, symbolization, grand guignol, onanism, embodiment, apologia, coda, koans, paradox, acedia, weltanschauung, colloquialism, counterexample, dialectic, muse, pragmatics, referents, hyperreality, hyperrealism, paraphrase, elegy, personification, catharsis, illogic, mot juste, rorschach test, banality, wishfulness, freudian psychology, counterpoint, endlessness, epitaph, springboard, phantasm, absurdity, darkling, duality, auteurism, abjection, telos, anecdote, philosophizing, leitmotiv, portent, rumination, macrocosm, prefiguring, phraseology, deracination, grotesquery, metaphors, symbol, analogies, tropes, instrument, axiom, rationale, symbols, tactic, dictum, gambit, gimmick, paradigm, marriage, anxiety, card, change, chart, consciousness, culture, curriculum, difference, faith, form, knowledge, landscape, law, legacy, leisure, list, marker, mirror

dead metaphor, frozen metaphor, synesthetic metaphor

allegory, analogical, bright as a new pennyp, catachresis, dead metaphor, frozen metaphor, lens, synesthetic metaphor

figure, figure of speech, image