Term: trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Broader: rhetorical device: a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) | Unrelated: quantum chromodynamics: a theory of strong interactions between elementary particles (including the interaction that binds protons and neutrons in the nucleus); it assumes that strongly interacting particles (hadrons) are made of quarks and that gluons bind the quarks together
Broader: rhetorical device: a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) | Unrelated: woad: a blue dyestuff obtained from the woad plant
Broader: rhetorical device: a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) | Unrelated: backbench: any of the seats occupied by backbenchers in the House of Commons
Broader: rhetorical device: a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) | Unrelated: ledger board: top rail of a fence or balustrade
Broader: rhetorical device: a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) | Unrelated: memory chip: a RAM microchip that can be plugged into a computer to provide additional memory
Broader: rhetorical device: a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) | Unrelated: marmota: marmots
Broader: rhetorical device: a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) | Unrelated: tree mallow: arborescent perennial shrub having palmately lobed furry leaves and showy red-purple flowers; southwestern United States
Broader: rhetorical device: a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) | Unrelated: symbol: an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance
Broader: rhetorical device: a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) | Unrelated: doubt: uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something
Broader: rhetorical device: a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) | Unrelated: genus sassafras: a genus of sassafras