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dead metaphor
noun
(dead metaphor)
a word or phrase (such as time is running out) that has lost its metaphoric force through common usage
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frozen metaphor
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metaphor
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tralation
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figure of speech
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metalepsis
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tropist
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hypallage
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rhetorical device
,
set phrase
,
hysteron proteron
,
kyriology
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tralatition
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epanadiplosis
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hyperbaton
,
antiphrasis
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simile
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cliche
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cacozelia
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expressive style
,
platitudinize
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mutandis
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tropology
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analogy
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analogist
,
allegory
,
allegorist
,
ideophone
,
literal
,
allegorise
,
brachyology
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pathetic fallacy
,
antiphrastic
,
falsism
,
epyllion
,
propositional calculus
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metaphrase
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symbolism
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verbigeration
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noun phrase
,
figurative
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tapinosis
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euhemerize
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verb phrase
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tagmemics
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anacoluthic
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parusia
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allusion
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phrase
,
extradictionary
,
dramatic irony
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obsoletism
,
pluriliteral
,
proverbialism
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trite
,
onomatope
,
representational process
,
trope
,
agnomination
,
overword
,
morology
,
heroic verse
,
anacoluthia
,
poetic
,
biverbal
,
cliched
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autological
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formal language
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metonymy
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grecism
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shaggy dog story
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paradiastole
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polyseme
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poetize
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dorism
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gongorism
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give voice
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conversationism
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hackneyed
,
antimetathesis
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hudibrastic
,
parable
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idiom
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rhyme scheme
,
literary composition
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scripturalist
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annomination
,
epanorthosis
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verbalist
,
heterophemy
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heracleonite
,
content word
,
holophrasis
,
brachylogy
,
paraleipsis
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internal rhyme
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semiquote
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epiploce
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tagmeme
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logology
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narrative
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dead metaphor
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