English poetry and of the Icelandic sagas and is a means of much stoical restraint.
Examples: Taken from ―A Linguistic guide to English Poetry‖ by Leech 1969:
169: 14
He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.
Hamlet, Lii From what we learn by Helmet‘s behavior throughout the play, it is
clear that these words do not do justice to his feelings. It is not that the statement is untrue: rather, it is true in the manner of a platitude
– it reveals nothing of the emotion that Hamlet expresses elsewhere.
2.2.2.7. Metonymy
Metonymy is a figurative meaning in which the name of one object or idea is substituted for that of another closely associated with it.
Webster‘s Third New International Dictionary in Leech 1969: 152 says ―Metonymy is
a figure of speech that consists in using the name of one thing for that of something else with which it is associated.‖
Halliday 1985: 319 says ―It is a word which is used for something
related to that which it usually refers to. ‖
Example: Taken from
the book ―Semantics: The Study of Meaning, 2
nd
Edition‖ by Geoffrey Leech 1981: 217-218
15 The neighborhood objected to his plans.
Neighborhood= ‗the people in the neighborhood‘ 16
The whole town turned out to welcome us. Whole town= ‗all the people living in the town‘
17 I enjoy Shakespeare immensely.
Shakespeare= ‗the works of Shakespeare‘ 18
That sounds like early Beethoven. early Beethoven= ‘the early works of Beethoven‘
19 Nothing like it has happened since Napoleon.
Napoleon= ‗the time of Napoleon‘, ‗the time when napoleon lived‘
20 After the bomb, nothing could be the same again.
The bomb= ‗the invention of the bomb‘
2.2.2.8. Oxymoron
An
oxymoron plural
:
oxymora
is a figure of speech that combines two opposing or contradictory ideas. Oxymoron appears in a variety of
contexts, including inadvertent errors such as
ground pilot
and literary oxymoron crafted to reveal a paradox. The most common form of oxymoron
involves an adjective-noun combination of two words. Leech 1969:132
states ―Oxymoron is the yoking together of two expressions which are semantically incompatible, so that in combination they
can have no conceivable literal reference to reality.‖ Example:
One case where many oxymora are strung together can be found in Shakespeares
Romeo and Juliet
, where Romeo declares: 21
―O heavy lightness Serious vanity
