S: (n) kenning (conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry)
S: (n) metaphor (a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity)
S: (n) metonymy (substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads'))
S: (n) oxymoron (conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence'))
S: (n) simile (a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as'))
S: (n) synecdoche (substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa)
S: (n) zeugma (use of a verb with two or more complements, playing on the verb's polysemy, for humorous effect) "`Mr. Pickwick took his hat and his leave' is an example of zeugma"