EMPHASIS
SPEECH ACT by which one uses a word in a heavily loaded specific often terminologised non-ordinary sense.
專指特義法 The pregnant use of a word in a specifically rich sense.
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.
- RHETORICAL
DEVICE詞格 METHOD of adorning discourse.
Vivendum est "one has to fight for one's survival, one must know how to
survive". "homo est ille (and fallible)".
REF: Lausberg 905
Greek/Latin: Quint. 8.3.83 emfaseoos duae sunt species: altera quae plus significat quam dicit, altera quae etiam id quod not dicit. ... ... Quint. 9.2.66 eius triplex usus est: unus si dicere palam parum tutum est, alter si non decet, tertius venustatis modo gratia adhibetur et ipsa novitate ac varietate magis, quam si relatio sit recta, delectat.
Ancient Chinese: Very common but not investigated as a rhetorical device. Badly needs to be studied. There surely are examples of this in LY.
REF: Lausberg 905
Greek/Latin: Quint. 8.3.83 emfaseoos duae sunt species: altera quae plus significat quam dicit, altera quae etiam id quod not dicit. ... ... Quint. 9.2.66 eius triplex usus est: unus si dicere palam parum tutum est, alter si non decet, tertius venustatis modo gratia adhibetur et ipsa novitate ac varietate magis, quam si relatio sit recta, delectat.
Ancient Chinese: Very common but not investigated as a rhetorical device. Badly needs to be studied. There surely are examples of this in LY.