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An intensive pronoun (or self-intensifier) adds emphasis to a statement; for example, "I did it myself."While English intensive pronouns (e.g., myself, yourself, himself, herself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves) use the same form as reflexive pronouns, an intensive pronoun is different from a reflexive pronoun because it functions as an adverbial or adnominal modifier, not as an argument of ...
Synecdoche is a rhetorical trope and a kind of metonymy—a figure of speech using a term to denote one thing to refer to a related thing. [9] [10]Synecdoche (and thus metonymy) is distinct from metaphor, [11] although in the past, it was considered a sub-species of metaphor, intending metaphor as a type of conceptual substitution (as Quintilian does in Institutio oratoria Book VIII).
Some of these synonyms are: as-, gör-, svin-, skit-, and ur-. These do not refer to size, only intensity, e.g. gul "yellow" to jättegul or skitgul "very yellow". Like many other augmentative prefixes, jätte - is also a noun that can be part of a compound word, e.g. jättelik "enormous" (literally "giantlike"), as opposed to jättelik "very ...
Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1]. A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2]
1,2-disubstituted Cycloalkene undergoing syn and anti addition. Syn addition is the addition of two substituents to the same side (or face) of a double bond or triple bond, resulting in a decrease in bond order but an increase in number of substituents. [3] Generally the substrate will be an alkene or alkyne.
In rhetoric, synonymia (Greek: syn, "alike" + onoma, "name") is the use of several synonyms together to amplify or explain a given subject or term. It is a kind of repetition that adds emotional force or intellectual clarity. Synonymia often occurs in parallel fashion. [1] [2]
Synizesis (/ ˌ s ɪ n ə ˈ z iː s ɪ s /) is a sound change in which two originally syllabic vowels are pronounced instead as a single syllable. [1] In poetry, the vowel contraction would often be necessitated by the metrical requirements of the poetic form. [2]
Synechism (from Greek συνεχής synechḗs, "continuous" + -ism, from σύν syn, "together" + ἔχειν échein>, "to have", "to hold"), a philosophical term proposed by C. S. Peirce [1] to express the tendency to regard things such as space, time, and law as continuous: [2]