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Metonymy

A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests it; as, we say, a man keeps a good table instead of good provisions; we read Virgil, that is, his poems; a man has a warm heart, that is, warm affections.

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Figure 76% connected

The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

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Image 76% connected

An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a v…

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Trope 76% connected

The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the orig…

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Metalepsis 76% connected

The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word.

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Metonymical 74% connected

Used by way of metonymy.

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Metonymical 74% connected

Used by way of metonymy.

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Dead metaphor noun · 86% connection

a metaphor that has occurred so often that it has become a new meaning of the expression (e.g., ‘he is a snake’ may once have been a m…

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Frozen metaphor noun · 86% connection

a metaphor that has occurred so often that it has become a new meaning of the expression (e.g., ‘he is a snake’ may once have been a m…

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Metaphor noun · 86% connection

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 simila…

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Mixed metaphor noun · 86% connection

a combination of two or more metaphors that together produce a ridiculous effect

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Synesthetic metaphor noun · 86% connection

a metaphor that exploits a similarity between experiences in different sense modalities

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Conversion noun · 85% connection

interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition

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Allocution noun · 78% connection

(rhetoric) a formal or authoritative address that advises or exhorts

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Exordium noun · 78% connection

(rhetoric) the introductory section of an oration or discourse

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Narration noun · 78% connection

(rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth

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Parenesis noun · 78% connection

(rhetoric) exhortation; admonition.; "In Deuteronomy it is often impossible to separate parenesis from history."

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Peroration noun · 78% connection

(rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration; "he summarized his main points in his peroration"

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Ploce noun · 78% connection

(rhetoric) repetition to gain special emphasis or extend meaning

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Tapinosis noun · 78% connection

(rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is given less importance by the name given it than it merits.; "The last and perhaps t…

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Counterargument noun · 78% connection

an argument offered in opposition to another argument

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Rhetorical device noun · 78% connection

a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)

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Rhetorical question noun · 78% connection

a statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered; "he liked to make his points with rhetorical que…

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Amelioration noun · 78% connection

the act of relieving ills and changing for the better

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Analogy noun · 78% connection

the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greate…

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Aeneid noun · 78% connection

The great epic poem of Virgil, of which the hero is Aeneas.

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Allowance noun · 78% connection

To put upon a fixed allowance (esp. of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity; as, the captain was obliged t…

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Amoebaeum noun · 78% connection

A poem in which persons are represented at speaking alternately; as the third and seventh eclogues of Virgil.

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Antonomasia noun · 78% connection

The use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majest…

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Apron noun · 78% connection

Something which by its shape or use suggests an apron;

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Bucolic noun · 78% connection

A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Vi…

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Calceolaria noun · 78% connection

A genus of showy herbaceous or shrubby plants, brought from South America; slipperwort. It has a yellow or purple flower, often spotte…

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Causative noun · 78% connection

A word which expresses or suggests a cause.

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Cheer noun · 78% connection

That which promotes good spirits or cheerfulness; provisions prepared for a feast; entertainment; as, a table loaded with good cheer.

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Communication noun · 78% connection

A trope, by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says we, instead of I or you.

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Constitutional economics noun · 78% connection

A branch of economics which focuses on the conditions that exist in and choices constrained by the legal framework of a political cons…

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Eclogue noun · 78% connection

A pastoral poem, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other; a bucolic; an idyl; as, the Ecloques of Virgil, from wh…

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