Figurative use of language
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
The SMART Vocabulary cloud shows the related words and phrases you can find in the Cambridge Dictionary that make up this topic. Click on a word to go to the definition.
- a metaphor forsomethingidiom
- allegorically
- allusion
- anthropomorphic
- anthropomorphism
- anthropomorphize
- as
- as it wereidiom
- fig
- figurative
- figuratively
- figure of speech
- idiom
- imagery
- ironic
- irony
- metaphor
- metaphorical
- metaphorically
- metonym
- metonymic
- metonymy
- mix
- mixyourmetaphorsidiom
- mixed metaphor
- non-literal
- non-metaphorical
- pathetic fallacy
- so to speakidiom
- speak
- symbol
- trope