TIP OF THE DAY 103: Speaking with style - figures of speech continued
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QUESTION: Where else does Jesus use this figure of speech?
SOFTWARE: Modify the search above using a specific description and name instead of a wild card: speaker:person:Peter INTERSECTS figureofSpeech:(description:Implication AND name:Hypocatastasis)
QUESTION: What information is needed to understand an instance of hypocatastasis?
ANSWER: There are four elements:
The term that is stated.
The term that is unstated.
The basis of the comparison.
The effect on meaning and emphasis.
QUESTION: What is the difference between schemes and tropes?
ANSWER: from Wikipedia: Figure of Speech
In the distinction between literal and figurative language, figures of speech constitute the latter. Figures of speech are traditionally classified into schemes, which vary the ordinary sequence of words, and tropes, where words carry a meaning other than what they ordinarily signify.
QUESTION: What are the four rhetorical operations?
ANSWER: from Wikipedia: Figure of Speech
Classical rhetoricians classified figures of speech into four categories or quadripita ratio:[3]
addition (adiectio), also called repetition/expansion/superabundance
omission (detractio), also called subtraction/abridgement/lack
transposition (transmutatio), also called transferring
permutation (immutatio), also called switching/interchange/substitution/transmutation
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