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The opposite of antonomasia is an archetypal name. One common example in French is the word for fox: the Latin-derived French : goupil was replaced by French : renard , from Renart, the fox hero of the Roman de Renart (originally the German Reinhard).
An archetypal name is a proper name of a real person or mythological or fictional character that has become a designation for an archetype of a certain personal trait. [1] It is a form of antonomasia.
For example, referring to actions of the U.S. president as "actions of the White House". Antonomasia - A kind of metonymy in which an epithet or phrase takes the place of a proper name. Synecdoche – A literary device, related to metonymy and metaphor, which creates a play on words by referring to something with a related concept. For example ...
Antonomasia – the substitution of an epithet for a proper name. Apophasis – pretending to deny something as a means of implicitly affirming it; as paralipsis, mentioning something by saying that you will not mention it; the opposite of occupatio. Aporia – a declaration of doubt, made for rhetorical purpose and often feigned.
For example, the phrase, "John, my best friend" uses the scheme known as apposition. Tropes (from Greek trepein, 'to turn') change the general meaning of words. An example of a trope is irony, which is the use of words to convey the opposite of their usual meaning ("For Brutus is an honorable man; / So are they all, all honorable men").
Example Crossing categorical boundaries with words, because there otherwise would be no suitable word. [3] [4] The sustainers of a chair being referred to as legs. Replacing an expected word with another, half rhyming (or a partly sound-alike) word, with an entirely different meaning from what one would expect (cf malapropism, Spoonerism ...
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Root Meaning in English Origin language Etymology (root origin) English examples ob-, o-, oc-, of-, og-, op-, os-[1]against: Latin: ob: obduracy, obdurate, obduration ...