Roget's Thesaurus

#521. Metaphor

Nouns

figure of speech; facon de parler [Fr.], way of speaking, colloquialism. phrase etc. 566; figure, trope, metaphor, enallage, catachresis; metonymy [Gramm.], synecdoche [Sem.]; autonomasia, irony, figurativeness etc. adj.; image, imagery; metalepsis, type, anagoge, simile, personification, prosopopoeia, allegory, apologue, parable, fable; allusion, adumbration; application. exaggeration, hyperbole etc. 549. association, association of ideas (analogy) 514a

Verbs

employ a metaphor etc. n.; personify, allegorize, adumbrate, shadow forth, apply, allude to.

Adjectives

metaphorical, figurative, catachrestical, typical, tralatitious, parabolic, allegorical, allusive, anagogical; ironical; colloquial; tropical.

Adverbs

so to speak, so to say, so to express oneself; as it were.

Phrases

mutato nomine de te fabula narratur [Lat.] [Horace].