RHETORICAL DEVICES
   
     Alphabetical list of some six hundred [CHECK XX] rhetorical devices with brief definitions.
     A search box, saying "Type to filter" similar to that on the CONCEPT, SYNTACTIC FUNCTIONS and SEMANTIC FEATURE pages lets you search for the presence of words of interest anywhere in the list. As elsewhere the number initially displayed when you click the "COUNT" button is the total number of major entries, in this case rhetorical devices. If you search on specific words (in either alphabetical or traditional chinese characters) COUNT will display the number of hits found anywhere in the entries. 

    Formula 	Definition 	Remarks

    IRONIA-SARCASM      IRONY involving sarcasm.  冷笑法 Sarcastic humorous remark. 
	
    IRONIA-SUSTAINED 	IRONIA sustained over many sentences or paragraphs
                        幾句反話法　Irony sustained over several sentences. 

    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 

    SELF-IRONY 	        IRONIA in discourse about oneself. 

    URBANITAS 	        RHETORICAL STYLE which consists in highly communicative wit or jeu d'esprit.
                        滑稽修飾法 Facetious, ironic, or otherwise sophisticated and urbane colloquial style typically involving self-irony.  
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     Clicking on the device name takes you to a page constructed much like a major concept page, which may have
     an "ontology" of hypernyms etc, miscellaneous notes and a list of "locations" where the device appears in some text. 
     [The word "location" is perhaps a superior term for the popular version than is either attribution or citation]
     Clicking on a location takes you directly into the full text.

     ABOMINATIO  當面罵人法      ADDRESS designed to insult one's addressee.

     Insulting form of address, direct insult to the face.
     Contrast EXECRATIO, which is not face-to-face.
     Greek: bdelygmia

     Ontology of Abominatio:
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     Hypernym:

     ADDRESS
     SPEECH ACT of explicitly addressing an audience.
        SPEECH ACT
        RHETORICAL 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.

      Notes
      Rhetorical device locations: 2

      韓非子 役夫！ Note the direct address with 汝 in the next line.
      論語 「野哉， 由也

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