Hypernym

• 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.
  • RHETORICAL DEVICE詞格　METHOD of adorning discourse.
• 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詞格　METHOD of adorning discourse.

Hyponym

• ANIMALIFICATIOFICTIO converting what is not an animal into an animal.
• PERSONIFICATIOFICTIO 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 PERSONAEFICTIO or narrative invention of a person.
• FICTIO VERBIFICTIO or invention of a word which does not exist.
• SERMOCINATIOFICTIO 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.

• Historisches Woerterbuch der Rhetorik ( UEDING 1992ff) p. 3.342