Figures of Speech: Tropes and Rhetorical Devices

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[...] Effects of sensory osmosis Hugo establishes a correspondence between the sounds of vowels and colors. [...]

[...] Symbols archetypes and sociocultural who evolves according to the one who reads it. - Two complementary roles ? Emblematic Role : linguistic emblem that materializes an idea difficult to express, such as water symbolizing the idea of purification and moral regeneration ? Role of social cohesion : strengthen the community by sharing values (political, religious?) Allegory ? The figurative staging of a thought « I prefer a willow to simple nature A student on the banks of a wave always pure, Rather than a servile shrub That overcomes, crawling, the proud oaks Concrete textual development staging an abstract theme. [...]

[...] Example: the word 'to work' in Latin, 'laborare' ? Labourer. Adam, when he is driven out of paradise, must earn his bread by the sweat of his brow: and therefore labour the land, become an agriculturalist. ? The fertile land (arable) is reformulated in a metaphor in praesentia : the dream is fertile. ? This metaphor passes from n1 to n2 (and not n1 is it is determinative here because it is a complement of the noun. Interpretation allows us to derive a reader hypothesis. [...]

[...] Well, I look quite like that » - Euphemism : attenuation of an unpleasant truth by taboo or opportunity : « the maid with a big heart that you were jealous of, and who sleeps her sleep under a humble lawn » - Allusion : to evoke something without saying it explicitly, by means of an association of ideas : « the rumor ran that in this blond beard, the fingers of Queen Jeanne had sometimes played » - Ironie or antiphrase : to say the opposite of what one thinks in order to denounce it better : their profession is to be seen and seen again, and they never go to bed without having carried out a job so serious, and so useful to the republic » - Paradox : Formation of logical links against common logic : « it resembled the sphinx who digests and is silent; unchanging; being all, it had nothing to say » ? Antithesis : « a prayer with eyes and never praying » ? [...]

[...] Based on the discursive conversion in positive axiology of the statement on the problematic reality? - ? and theattenuation of the force of this statement ? Act of re-evaluative, detensive and socialized speech in front of a risk reference. ? Intervention is preferred to operation ? Disparition is preferred to death ? Reconduct to the border is preferred to expel Litote Saying less to be heard more: the choice of expression is made to reinforce an information; it is therefore the opposite of euphemism, as it highlights what is not going well. [...]