Figurative Language

An inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh

Extravagant exaggeration

A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity

Conjoining contradictory terms

A statement that contradicts itself

The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas, things, etc.

A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with "like" or "as")

Something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible