| 单词 | rhetorical figure |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrhetorical figure rhetorical figure n. any of the forms of expression which give beauty, variety, force, etc., to a composition in accordance with the theory and principles of rhetoric, as metaphor, metonym, hyperbole, etc.; cf. figure n. 21a. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > [noun] tropeOE figurec1386 image1550 scheme1553 noema1555 rhetorical figure1565 idea1642 tropics1697 feint1730 arabesque1821 1565 N. Sanders Supper of Our Lord ii. xiv. f. 69 Decolampadius, Caluin, or Peter Martir is a mete Scholemaster for him to expound what kind of Rhetorical figure it is, verely sai thei, metonymia, or synecdoche. 1671 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Merismus, Division, a Rhetorical figure, disposing several things in their proper places. 1783 H. Blair Lect. Rhetoric I. xix. 400 He abounds in Rhetorical Figures; and pours himself forth with great impetuosity. 1871 R. F. Weymouth Euphuism 13 Irony or climax or hyperbole or any other rhetorical figure. 1933 F. N. Robinson Compl. Wks. Chaucer 772/2 It should be added that the rhetorical figure here employed—the refusal to describe or narrate, technically known as ‘occupatio’—is very common with Chaucer. 2002 N. Tosches In Hand of Dante 153 Rhetorical figures, such as antithetical isocola, anaphoras, and other subtle ornata, were to be interwoven with the simplicity of the straightforward. < as lemmas |
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