Figurative Speech

Tropes (Tropen)

any expression which implies a transference of meaning

Simile: explicit/overt comparison, ‘as’, ‘like’.

Metaphor: no ‘as’ or ‘like’; implicit/covert comparison, Achilles is a lion in battle (lion= vehicle; Achilles = tenor)

• The Concretive Metaphor
• The Animistc Metaphor
• The Humanizing ('Antropomorphic') Metaphor
• The Synaesthetic Metaphor
• Extended Metaphor
• Compound Metaphor
• Mixed Metaphor

Metonymy: replaces one expression by another, which has a spatial, temporal, or logical connection with it.

Synecdoche: a part stands for the whole, or vice versa.

Allegory: a set of analogies.

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