| 单词 | antiphrasis |
| 释义 | antiphrasis (once / 622069 pages) n WORD FAMILY antiphrasis USAGE EXAMPLESInstances of antiphrasis in the names given to black slaves are very common. Anonymous, The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I...(2010) Now, they were taunted with their very name, as having been bestowed upon them "by antiphrasis," i.e. by contraries. Ward, Adolphus William, Sir, Chaucer(2010) n the use of a word in a sense opposite to its normal sense (especially in irony) Hyper rhetorical device a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) |
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