NEG-RAISING  

METAPLASMUS in which a negation is moved from its logical position in the phrase higher up in the syntactic tree, as for example in 勿使 "cause not to" and in the English "I don't believe he will come".

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  • METAPLASMUSRHETORICAL FIGURE consisting in the reshaping of an expression rather than the addition or omission of elements. 改詞法 Transformation of the form of words, e.g. Mavors for Mars".
    • RHETORICAL FIGURE形式詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE which mainly consists in the distribution of expressions in a passage.
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