Hypernym

• 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

• ADVOCATIO DIABOLIHISTRIONIC device in which the speaker takes on the role of the "advocate of the devil", arguing as best he can for the case that is being dismissed. 魔鬼詭辯法 Advocacy of a proposition which is the opposite of what is generally accepted by everyone, including the speaker.
• AENIGMAHISTRIONIC rhetorical device in which the speaker/writer expresses himself in a deliberately enigmatic way, making it hard to understand his meaning. Deliberately obscure or esoteric allegory or metaphor. See NOEMA. This must be carefully distinguished from simple use of recondite language, and the distinction is often hard to make post festum because what may seem recondite to us might often well have been colloquial and current to the ancients, though not well attested in the formal literature.Greek: ainigma.Ancient Chinese: Very common.
• FICTIOHISTRIONIC NARRATIO or discursive invention.
  • ANIMALIFICATIO　FICTIO converting what is not an animal into an animal.
  • PERSONIFICATIO　FICTIO 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 PERSONAE　FICTIO or narrative invention of a person.
  • FICTIO VERBI　FICTIO or invention of a word which does not exist.
  • SERMOCINATIO　FICTIO 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.
• IRONIAHISTRIONIC way of expressing something by playfully creating an appearance of claiming its opposite, typically assuming one's playfulness to be understood by the intended audience. The use of words to express something diametrically different from their meaning, or in a histrionically mediated sense. test
  • ANTILOGIA　IRONIA in the form of elaborate argumentation in favour of the opposite of one's views,
    • ANTILOGIA-POETIC　ANTILOGIA in the medium of poetry.
  • IRONIA-SARCASM　IRONIA involving sarcasm. 冷笑法 Sarcastic humorous remark.
    • CHLEUASMUS　冷笑法 Sarcastic reply that mocks an opponent and leaves him no answer.
  • IRONIA-PARODY　IRONIA with the central element of parody. 滑稽擬作法 Ironic discourse in playful imitation of a well-known model.
    • IRONIA-SELF-PARODY　自我擬作法 Ironic parody directed at oneself.
  • IRONIA-SUSTAINED　IRONIA sustained over many sentences or paragraphs 幾句反話法　Irony sustained over several sentences.
  • SELF-IRONY　IRONIA in discourse about oneself.
  • MEIOSIS　IRIONIA consisting in belittling one thing in order to emphasise the real greatness of another.
  • LITOTES　IRONIA in which one understates the quality of a thing through negation of the opposite in order to stress its greatness or excellence. 間接肯定法 Periphrastic ironic use of a negative statement to express a strong positive statement, often combination of emphasis and irony. 不少
  • SARCASMUS　IRONIA in the form of malicious joyless criticism.
  • IRONIA-PLAYFUL　IRONIA in which the male or female speaker only playfully pretends that he or she literally means what he or she is saying. [This definition being a marginal example of that form.]
• ARCHAISMUSHISTRIONIC rhetorical device in which the speaker artificially uses obsolete language. Archaism, deliberate us of out-dated linguistic forms.
• CONTRADICTIOHISTRIONIC rhetorical device in which the author claims the opposite of what he has just said. 自我矛盾法 Demonstrative advocacy of apparently contradictory views.
  • OXYMORON　CONTRADICTIO in which a noun is modified by an adjective that is inconsistent with the semantic content of the noun, that complex expression being used to make a subtle abstract observation. Contradiction in terms, typically a nominal expression, but compare also festina lente "hurry slow".See also PARADOXON which refers to propositions rather than terms.
• HAESITATIOHISTRIONIC display of articulatory hesitation. 徘徊法 Explicitly declared hesitation about how to express oneself ( 怎麼說呢 ?).
• HYPERBOLEHISTRIONIC overt exaggeration of what one is trying to say. 誇張法 Deliberate exaggeration. Traditionally also DEINOOSIS.
• PRAETERITIOHISTRIONIC mentioning of a matter with refusal to specifying relevant details that would be of interest to the intended audience. Explicit omission of a subject, often used as an excuse to do exactly what one is announcing one will not do.
• ADVOCATIO DEIHISTRIONICS which consists in the speaker taking on the role of arguing for the ultimate truth rather than its opposite which is argued for by the advocatus diaboli.