All apostrophe synonyms

noun apostrophe

• train of thought — sequence of ideas
• word painting — an effective verbal description.
• word association — stimulation of an associative pattern by a word.
• digression — the act of digressing.
• rambling — aimlessly wandering.
• obiter dictum — an incidental or passing remark, opinion, etc.
• discursion — an instance of discursive writing, speech, etc.; a wandering or logically unconnected statement.
• allegory — An allegory is a story, poem, or painting in which the characters and events are symbols of something else. Allegories are often moral, religious, or political.
• allusion — An allusion is an indirect reference to someone or something.
• analogy — If you make or draw an analogy between two things, you show that they are similar in some way.
• anticlimax — You can describe something as an anticlimax if it disappoints you because it happens after something that was very exciting, or because it is not as exciting as you expected.
• antithesis — The antithesis of something is its exact opposite.
• bathos — In literary criticism, bathos is a sudden change in speech or writing from a serious or important subject to a ridiculous or very ordinary one.
• comparison — When you make a comparison, you consider two or more things and discover the differences between them.
• conceit — Conceit is very great pride in your abilities or achievements that other people feel is too great.
• device — A device is an object that has been invented for a particular purpose, for example for recording or measuring something.
• flourish — to be in a vigorous state; thrive: a period in which art flourished.
• flower — the blossom of a plant.
• hyperbole — obvious and intentional exaggeration.
• image — a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
• imagery — the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively: the dim imagery of a dream.