metafoor

Definitions of metafoor
  1. noun
    language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
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    ironie
    a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
    hyperbool, overdrijving
    extravagant exaggeration
    metonymia, naamwisseling
    substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads')
    oxymoron
    conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')
    belichaming, incarnatie, personificatie, verpersoonlijking
    representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature
    synecdoche
    substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa
    zeugma
    use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one
    metalepsis
    substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another
    type of:
    stijlfiguur, stijlmiddel
    a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)
  2. 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
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