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Many English words can belong to more than one part of speech. Words like neigh, break, outlaw, laser, microwave, and telephone might all be either verbs or nouns. In certain circumstances, even words with primarily grammatical functions can be used as verbs or nouns, as in, "We must look to the hows and not just the whys."
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).
a product that has been rejected because there is something wrong with it / r ɪ ˈ dʒ ɛ k t / verb to refuse to accept, believe in, or agree with something resign / r ɪ ˈ z aɪ n / verb 1. to quit 2. to accept that something undesirable cannot be avoided / r iː ˈ s aɪ n / verb to sign again; re-sign: resume / r ɪ ˈ zj uː m / verb to ...
Tmesis – separating the parts of a compound word by a different word (or words) to create emphasis or other similar effects. Topos – a line or specific type of argument. Toulmin model – a method of diagramming arguments created by Stephen Toulmin that identifies such components as backing, claim, data, qualifier, rebuttal, and warrant.
Synecdoche: A part of something is often used for the whole, as when people refer to "head" of cattle or assistants are referred to as "hands." An example of this is the Canadian dollar , referred to as the loonie for the image of a bird on the one-dollar coin.
the part of the road nearest the edge, used especially by slower-moving vehicles (US: outside lane) (in both cases the term applies to the lane in the direction concerned) the part of the road nearest the vehicles going in the opposite direction, used especially by faster vehicles (UK: outside lane) intern
Lists of English words; List of works with different titles in the United Kingdom and United States; Pseudo-anglicism; Glossary of American terms not widely used in the United Kingdom; Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States
A tautology is when something is defined or explained by saying exactly the same thing again in different words. [54] tableau tail rhyme Tagelied tale tanka In Japanese poetry, a short poem in the form 5,7,5,7,7 syllabic units. [55] tan-renga In Japanese poetry, a tanka where the upper part is composed by one poet and the lower part by another ...