Making Sense of Metaphors and Other Tropes
Publisher: Academica Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781680532166
Subjects: Metaphor; Figures of speech
Description: "Making Sense of Metaphors and Other Tropes argues that figures of speech in prose or poetry, literature or talk, make sense as turns of rhetoric by means of their energeia (vividness, radiance, éclat), a forceful expressing of an idea rather than a means of arriving at one, a process of speech, not a fundamental shape of understanding or trick of mind"--