kennings - noun a compound expression in Old English and Old Norse poetry

with metaphorical meaning

allegory - noun an expressive style that uses ctional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor; a short moral story (often with animal characters); a visible symbol representing an abstract idea anagram - noun a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase; verb read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning anastrophe - noun the reversal of the normal order of words aphorism - noun a short pithy instructive saying archetype - noun an original model on which something is patterned asyndeton - noun the omission of conjunctions where they would normally be used Chiasmus - noun inversion in the second of two parallel phrases parallelism - noun similarity by virtue of corresponding doppelganger - noun a ghostly double of a living person that haunts its living counterpart foil - noun a light slender exible sword tipped by a button; a piece of thin and exible sheet metal; picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector; anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities; a device consisting of a at or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through; verb cover or back with foil; enhance by contrast; hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of onomatopeia - noun the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is

named
setting - noun the context and environment in which something is set; the physical position of something; the state of the environment in which a situation exists; arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted; a mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place; a table service for one person synesthesia - noun the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or

part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body.

syllogism - noun deductive reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises polysyndeton - noun using several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted (as in `he ran and jumped and laughed for joy') personication - noun the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.; representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature; a person who represents an abstract quality