Figurative Speech
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Tropes (Tropen
any expression which implies a transference of meaning
- Simile: explicit comparison, ‘as’, ‘like’.
- Metaphor: no ‘as’ or ‘like’; Achilles is a lion in battle (lion= vehicle; Achilles = tenor)
- 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.
- Symbol:
