Possible Clues:

• Metaphor, for one
• Recurrent theme, motif
• The irony is, spectator is missing cast
• Metaphorical use of a word or expression
• Literary device
• Rhetorical device
• Get the wine back. 'E uses the word figuratively
• Irony, say
• Metaphor, literarily
• Such a cable after a little tea might be figurative