PERSONIFICATIO-ABSTRACT-SUBJECT  

抽象擬人﹣主語 The personified use of abstract nouns as (quasi-)agents

Hypernym
  • PERSONIFICATIOFICTIO converting what is not a person into a person.Attribution of personal attributes to non-humans.
    • FICTIOHISTRIONIC NARRATIO or discursive invention.
      • HISTRIONICSRHETORICAL TROPE which crucially involves playful dissimulation of one's real meaning.
        • RHETORICAL TROPE體裁詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of expressions.
      • NARRATIOSPEECH ACT which consists in the reporting of events.
        • 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 locations: 4
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