ANIMALIFICATIO  動物化法

FICTIO converting what is not an animal into an animal.

Hypernym
  • FICTIOHISTRIONIC NARRATIO or discursive invention.
    • 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.
    • 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.
This differs systematically from PERSONIFICATIO in that it is primarily and predominatntly a matter of nomenclature only, thus being no more than a dramatising subcategory of METAPHORA.

    Rhetorical device locations: 3