Related Clues:

• Percussion instrument heard: it's a sign
• Emblem or icon
• Cinematic convention
• Poet laboured over right figure of speech
• Something representative
• Figurative use of a word or expression; motif
• Perhaps Rio brought up Ferguson's second figure of speech
• Representation, token
• The irony is, spectator is missing cast
• Jump scare, for one, in horror movies
• Cliche
• Characters saying 'you'd better come see this,' e.g
• Mark, my son, turned to run, losing time
• Character with a conventional significance
• Word employed in a figurative sense