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anaphora
Literature; General
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 ...
endophora
Literature; General
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 ...