Answer to "Figure of speech" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word TROPE , but the solution may also be IDIOM which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in LA Times).

Figure of speech crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
TROPE	56 %	5
IDIOM	24 %	5
ORATOR	9 %	6
SIMILE	4 %	6
IRONY	2 %	5
IMAGE	2 %	5
LECTOR	1 %	6
METAPHOR	1 %	8
OXYMORON	1 %	8
SOAPBOX PREACHER	1 %	16
DEVICE	1 %	6
PHONEME	1 %	7
ZEUGMA	1 %	6

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Figure of speech

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• trope
• image
• figure
• metaphor
• turn of phrase
• paraprosdokian
• idiom
• figura etymologica
• antiphrase
• façon de parler
• poetic licence
• simile

Crossword Answer definitions

TROPE noun

1. Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature, such as the ‘mad scientist’ of horror movies or the use of the phrase ‘once upon a time’ as an introduction to fairy tales; a motif.
2. A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor.
3. Mathematical senses.
4. Musical senses.
5. Philosophical senses.

TROPE verb

1. To use, or embellish something with, a trope.
2. Senses relating chiefly to art or literature.
3. To think or write in terms of tropes.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result TROPE

• Figure of speech
• Use of a word as an expression
• Figurative use of a word
• Metaphor, e.g.
• Figurative expression
• Metonymy or synecdoche, e.g.
• Irony, e.g.
• Irony, say
• Overused theme
• Irony, for example

More clues leading to the result IDIOM

• "In seventh heaven," e.g.
• "In the doghouse," e.g.
• Jargon
• Patois
• Peculiar to a language
• Figure of speech
• Firing on all cylinders, e.g.
• Many a long crossword answer
• Many a long crossword entry
• Shooting fish in a barrel, say

More clues leading to the result ORATOR

• Clay or King
• Henry Clay, for one
• Clay, for example
• Keynote deliverer
• Anyone running for president, e.g.
• Commencement Day speaker, for one
• Elocutionist
• Hot-air artist
• Loud speaker?
• Teleprompter user, perhaps

More clues leading to the result SIMILE

• Bit of literary imagery
• Comparison
• Good as gold, for example
• Hard as a rock, say
• "Hard as nails," for one
• "Eyes like stars," e.g.
• "Right as rain," e.g.
• Quiet as a mouse, e.g.
• "Healthy as a horse," e.g.
• Neat as a pin, say

More clues leading to the result IRONY

• "I'm clueless," for instance (considering the context)
• O. Henry device
• Literary device
• Subtle twist
• "A free ride when you've already paid" is an example of it, according to Alanis Morissette
• Device used by O. Henry
• Sardonic wit
• "The gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom," per Anatole France
• Dramatic device
• Literary twist

More clues leading to the result IMAGE

• Likeness
• "___ is everything!"
• Body or mirror
• Mental picture
• Mirror __
• Picture
• Pol's concern
• Publicist's concern
• Persona
• Spin doctor's concern

More clues leading to the result LECTOR

• European academician
• University speaker
• College discourser
• Lesson reader in church
• Campus speaker
• College speaker
• Reader at Mass
• Church assistant
• Scriptures reader
• Caveat ___ (let the reader beware)

More clues leading to the result METAPHOR

• "Love is a battlefield," e.g.
• Figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared
• "The Asphalt Jungle," literarily
• Figure of speech
• It's sometimes mixed
• "All the world's a stage," for example.
• "Why, the world's mine oyster."
• Something often mixed
• Implied comparison
• NERVES OF STEEL

More clues leading to the result OXYMORON

• Alone together, e.g.
• Pretty ugly, e.g.
• "Definite maybe," e.g.
• "True Lies," literarily
• Working vacation, e.g.
• Deafening silence, e.g.
• Open secret, e.g.
• Figure of speech
• "Jumbo shrimp," for one
• Guest host, for example

More clues leading to the result SOAPBOX PREACHER

• Figure of speech?

More clues leading to the result DEVICE

• Creative-writing technique
• Word after flotation or mnemonic
• Contrivance
• Scheme
• Gizmo
• Plot mechanism
• Figure of speech
• Instrument.
• Contrivance.
• Gadget.

More clues leading to the result PHONEME

• "I'd love it if you call"
• Speech unit
• Diphthong, e.g.
• Unit of speech
• Pronunciation unit
• Speech sound.
• Smallest unit of speech
• Basic linguistic unit
• "Sh" or "th," linguistically
• Pronunciation key representation

More clues leading to the result ZEUGMA

• Poetic term for what the Rolling Stones lyric "she blew my nose and then she blew my mind" contains
• Rhetorical device exemplified by the Daft Punk lyric "Let's raise the bar/And our cups to the stars"
• Figure of speech.
• Roman city that's the site of a frantic salvage operation