figure of speech 
noun
A word or phrase used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or vivid effect.If anything is missing from her far-reaching analyses it is a sense of how recurring figures of speech effect the desire and response of readers....
- Images are often presented through figures of speech like simile and metaphor.
- Poetry is language that makes abundant use of figures of speech and language that aims to be powerfully persuasive.
- unrequitement
- unrequiter
- unrescinded
- unrescued
- unresearched
- unresemblant
- unresemble
- from soup to nuts
- from stem to stern
- from strength
- from the (bottom of one's) heart
- from the bottom up
- from the dead
- from the floor
- from the ground up
- from the horse's mouth
- from thence
- from thenceforth
- from the top
- from the (very) first
- from the word go
- from time to time
- from top to bottom
- from top to toe
- from whence