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antiphrasis
noun
(an-tiph-ra-sis)
the use of a word in a sense opposite to its normal sense (especially in irony)
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antiphrasis
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figure of speech
,
rhetorical device
,
set phrase
,
hysteron proteron
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hyperbaton
,
epanadiplosis
,
hypallage
,
extradictionary
,
dramatic irony
,
tralation
,
epanorthosis
,
heterophemy
,
paradiastole
,
phrase
,
brachyology
,
anacoluthon
,
wellerism
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verb phrase
,
overword
,
tralatition
,
dead metaphor
,
expressive style
,
antimetathesis
,
pauciloquy
,
paragoge
,
socratic irony
,
kyriology
,
biverbal
,
noun phrase
,
cacozelia
,
anacoluthia
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ideophone
,
paronym
,
give voice
,
syllabism
,
language unit
,
verbalist
,
verbigeration
,
laconism
,
apocope
,
epithesis
,
pluriliteral
,
morology
,
enantiosis
,
calligram
,
homoioptoton
,
apocopation
,
hispanism
,
epiplexis
,
function word
,
tropist
,
misword
,
conversationism
,
eye rhyme
,
aphthong
,
polyseme
,
holophrasis
,
asteism
,
anthimeria
,
charactery
,
multiloquy
,
tropology
,
dorism
,
concrete noun
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diverb
,
irony
,
epiploce
,
ecphonesis
,
dysphemia
,
content word
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metaplasm
,
brachylogy
,
main clause
,
aphrasia
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indicative mood
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acute accent
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demonstrative pronoun
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internal rhyme
,
indefinite pronoun
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word
,
grecism
,
hapax legomenon
,
relative clause
,
present participle
,
tapinosis
,
paraleipsis
,
perlocution
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falsism
,
genteelism
,
common noun
,
briticism
,
obsoletism
,
metaplast
,
alpha privative
,
independent clause
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antibacchius
,
polyptoton
,
dipody
,
rhopalic
,
amphigory
,
antiphrasis
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