Hypernym

• 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.

Hyponym

• FICTIOHISTRIONIC NARRATIO or discursive invention.
  • ANIMALIFICATIO　FICTIO converting what is not an animal into an animal.
  • PERSONIFICATIO　FICTIO converting what is not a person into a person.Attribution of personal attributes to non-humans.
    • PROSOPOPOEIA　PERSONIFICATION in the form FICTIO of speech in things that cannot speak. Fictional attribution of speech to animals or things that cannot speak.
    • PERSONIFICATIO-ABSTRACT-SUBJECT　抽象擬人﹣主語 The personified use of abstract nouns as (quasi-)agents
  • FICTIO PERSONAE　FICTIO or narrative invention of a person.
  • FICTIO VERBI　FICTIO or invention of a word which does not exist.
  • SERMOCINATIO　FICTIO of speech or opinion in a real historical person.Attribution of speech or opinion to a real historical person.
  • FICTIO-PERSONAE　臆造人物法 Overt invention of a non-existing person.
  • FICTIO-VERBI　創詞法 Deliberate and overt coining of a new term.
• AUTOBIOGRAPHIANARRATIO of the speaker commenting on his own life. The autobiographic mode, diachronic or untensed, as the case may be.
  • REMINISCENTIA　AUTOBIOGRAPHIA which consists of the reporting of memories that are emotionally important to the author. Recital of personal reminiscences, most often of woes or injuries.
  • AUTOBIOGRAPHIA-AUTHORIAL　AUTOBIOGRAPHIA in which the author of a text addresses his audience with autobiographic discourse.
• FLASHBACKNARRATIO in which the narrator suddenly moves radically back in time. 追敘法
• ADNARRATIONARRATIO of a subsidiary kind which serves to explain or elaborate a detail in another main story.
• MYTHOSNARRATIO with a traditional typically supernatural conventionally well-known theme.
• FRAME TALE