s/n7105475

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has gloss	(noun) language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense figure, trope, figure of speech, image
has gloss	eng: In linguistics, trope is a rhetorical figure of speech that consists of a play on words, i.e., using a word in a way other than what is considered its literal or normal form. The other major category of figures of speech is the scheme, which involves changing the pattern of words in a sentence.
lexicalization	eng: figure of speech
lexicalization	eng: figure
lexicalization	eng: image
lexicalization	eng: trope
subclass of	(noun) a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) rhetorical device
has subclass	(noun) an elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things conceit
has subclass	(noun) a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs irony
has subclass	(noun) extravagant exaggeration exaggeration, hyperbole
has subclass	(noun) conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry kenning
has subclass	(noun) a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity metaphor
has subclass	(noun) substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads') metonymy
has subclass	(noun) conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence') oxymoron
has subclass	(noun) representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature prosopopoeia, personification
has subclass	(noun) a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as') simile
has subclass	(noun) substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa synecdoche
has subclass	(noun) use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one; "`Mr. Pickwick took his hat and his leave' is an example of zeugma" zeugma
has subclass	c/Fantasy tropes

Meaning
Afrikaans
lexicalization	afr: metafoor
Arabic
lexicalization	ara: تشبيه
Aragonese
lexicalization	arg: metafora
Asturian
lexicalization	ast: tropu
Catalan
lexicalization	cat: metàfora
Czech
lexicalization	ces: tropus
lexicalization	ces: řečnická figura
Mandarin Chinese
lexicalization	cmn: 比喻
lexicalization	cmn: 譬喻
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lexicalization	cmn: bǐ yu
lexicalization	cmn: 辞格
lexicalization	cmn: 辭格
Danish
lexicalization	dan: talemåde
German
lexicalization	deu: Metapher
lexicalization	deu: Trope
lexicalization	deu: Tropus
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lexicalization	deu: Redefigur
lexicalization	deu: rhetorische Figur
lexicalization	deu: Stilfigur
Esperanto
lexicalization	epo: tropo
lexicalization	epo: vortfiguro
Finnish
lexicalization	fin: metafora
lexicalization	fin: trooppi
lexicalization	fin: kielikuva
French
lexicalization	fra: trope
lexicalization	fra: métaphore
lexicalization	fra: figure de rhétorique
lexicalization	fra: figure de style
Galician
lexicalization	glg: metáfora
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
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lexicalization	grc: τρόπος
lexicalization	grc: λήκυθος
Hungarian
lexicalization	hun: metafora
Armenian
lexicalization	hye: փոխաբերություն
Ido
lexicalization	ido: metaforo
Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association)
lexicalization	ina: figura rhetoric
Indonesian
lexicalization	ind: kata kiasan
Icelandic
lexicalization	isl: myndhverfing
lexicalization	isl: stílbragð
Italian
lexicalization	ita: tropo
lexicalization	ita: metafora
lexicalization	ita: figura retorica
Japanese
lexicalization	jpn: 転義法
lexicalization	jpn: 比喩
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lexicalization	jpn: 修辞
lexicalization	jpn: 文彩
lexicalization	jpn: 言葉のあや
lexicalization	jpn: あや
Georgian
lexicalization	kat: მეტაფორა
Korean
lexicalization	kor: 은유
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lexicalization	kor: 비유
Latvian
lexicalization	lav: metafora
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lexicalization	lav: attēls
Lithuanian
lexicalization	lit: metafora
Macedonian
lexicalization	mkd: стилска фигура
Dutch
lexicalization	nld: troop
lexicalization	nld: metafoor
lexicalization	nld: stijlfiguur
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lexicalization	nld: spreekwijze
Norwegian Nynorsk
lexicalization	nno: metafor
Norwegian Bokmål
lexicalization	nob: metafor
Polish
lexicalization	pol: metafora
lexicalization	pol: figura retoryczna
Portuguese
lexicalization	por: metáfora
lexicalization	por: figura linguagem
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lexicalization	por: figura de linguagem
Russian
lexicalization	rus: троп
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lexicalization	rus: риторическая фигура
lexicalization	rus: фигура речи
Slovak
lexicalization	slk: metafora
Slovenian
lexicalization	slv: risba
Castilian
lexicalization	spa: metáfora
lexicalization	spa: tropo
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lexicalization	spa: metaplasmo
lexicalization	spa: figura retórica
Swedish
lexicalization	swe: metafor
Turkish
lexicalization	tur: mecaz
Ukrainian
lexicalization	ukr: троп

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similar	e/Figure of speech
similar	e/Trope (linguistics)
similar	e/Trope (literature)
similar	e/Trope (philosophy)
similar	e/simple/Figure of speech

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