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Catachresis (from Gr**** κατάχρησις, "misuse"),
originally meaning a
semantic misuse or error,...
- of sentences.
English as She Is
Spoke Fowler's
Modern English Usage Catachresis Disputed English grammar Error (linguistics)
Malapropism Prescription...
- ↔⇔≡⟺
Logical symbols representing iff In
logic and
related fields such as
mathematics and philosophy, "if and only if" (often
shortened as "iff") is...
-
sailed through rougher storms than the
tempest of
these lobbyists."
Catachresis – A
metaphor that is or can be a
stretch for an
audience to
catch on...
- "lead", /liːd/ (as in "lead singer", "lead guitarist", etc.)
Cacography Catachresis Eye
dialect Inventive spelling, the use of
unconventional spellings in...
- have
pushed rhetorical devices to
their limits,
making frequent use of
catachresis.
Allegorical stories are
central to the
poetic diction of many cultures...
- and metalepsis. To this list we
could easily add aporia, chiasmus, and
catachresis, all of
which are used in the
ritual of Signifyin(g)." Rudy Ray Moore...
- experience.
Apples and oranges –
Comparing items that
cannot be
compared Catachresis –
Rhetorical misuse of a term
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously –...
- "as a 'stretch', a way of
testing expressive limits, that is a form of
catachresis".
Pattison was in Cancun, Mexico,
during the
third series where, during...
- so
happy he’ll be like a
canary in a coal mine!" Anti-proverb
Bushism Catachresis Chernomyrdinka Colemanballs Dundrearyism Error (linguistics) Freudian...
