PERIPHRASIS
ANOMIA in which an author uses typically elaborate alternative descrition rather than brief specialised terminology to express a given meaning.
Hypernym
- ANOMIARHETORICAL STYLE of breaking norms, conventions or regular patterns of a language.
- RHETORICAL
STYLE體裁詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE which is mainly concerned with matters of style of
presentation rather than distribution of expressions or semantic
structure.
- RHETORICAL
DEVICE詞格 METHOD of adorning discourse.
- RHETORICAL
DEVICE詞格 METHOD of adorning discourse.
Hyponym
- ANTONOMASIAPERIPHRASIS in which an indirectly periphrastic expression is substituted for
a proper name. Periphrastic avoidance of a proper name.
- EUPHEMISMUSPERIPHRASIS which embellishes a concept so as to avoid inappropriate
language.
- Handbuch der literarischen Lhetorik
(
LAUSBERG
1990)
p.
590 - Historisches Woerterbuch der Rhetorik
(
UEDING
1992ff)
p.
6.765
Rhetorical device locations: 1
- 莊子