catachresis
Definitions of catachresis
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strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths')type of:rhetorical devicea use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)
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