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: