Answer: tropes

AnswerCrossword Clue
TROPESSimiles and metaphors and such
TROPESFigurative uses of words
TROPESWords used figuratively
TROPESFigures of speech
TROPESMetaphors, e.g.
TROPESLiterary devices
TROPESMetaphors.
TROPESFigures of speech.
TROPESSimiles, e.g.
TROPESRecurrent themes
TROPESMetaphors et al.
TROPESRhetorical devices
tropesphrase, sentence, or verse formerly interpolated in a liturgical text to amplify or embellish
tropesa. any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense b. instance of this
tropes(in the philosophy of Santayana) the principle of organization according to which matter moves to form an object during the various stages of its existence