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anaphora

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In linguistics, anaphora is an instance of an expression referring to another.

deixis

Literature; General

In linguistics, deixis refers to the phenomenon wherein understanding the meaning of certain words and phrases in an utterance requires contextual information. Words are deictic if their semantic ...

In linguistics, endophora is a term that means an expression which refers to something intralinguistic, i.e. in the same text. For example, in the sentences "I saw Sally yesterday. She was lying on ...

exophora

Literature; General

In linguistic pragmatics, exophora is reference to something extralinguistic, i.e. not in the same text, and contrasts with endophora

metaphor

Literature; General

Metaphor is the concept of understanding one thing in terms of another. A metaphor is a figure of speech that constructs an analogy between two things or ideas; the analogy is conveyed by the use of ...

metonymy

Literature; General

Metonymy is a figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept. For instance, ...

synecdoche

Literature; General

Synecdoche; from Greek synekdoche (συνεκδοχή), meaning "simultaneous understanding") is a figure of speech in which a term is used in one of the following ways: Part of something is used to refer to ...