COMPARATIO-SIMILE
對比法 Implicit comparison: "he is a pig" for "he is like a pig".
Hypernym
- COMPARATIORHETORICAL TROPE in which things are explained by means of comparing them to other things.
- SPEECH
ACTRHETORICAL TROPE in the form of a deliberate rhetorico-semantic act
performed. [This definition is still a tentative stop-gap, and this category
is far larger than I would like. It needs to be intelligently subdivided.
CH]
- RHETORICAL
TROPE體裁詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of
expressions.
- RHETORICAL
DEVICE詞格 METHOD of adorning discourse.
- RHETORICAL
DEVICE詞格 METHOD of adorning discourse.
- RHETORICAL
TROPE體裁詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of
expressions.
Often difficult to distinguish from METAPHOR.
- The Speeches of Cicero ( MACKENDRICK 1995) p.