trope

Japanese: trope
trope

… Aya is a form of expression that stands out from ordinary expressions. For example, more than 100 forms have been explained as techniques, such as word insertion, omission, transposition, and repetition as grammatical figures, and relaxation, contrast, and personification as thought figures. Among such diverse tropes, forms of expression that change the meaning of words are called tropes, and have been specially treated and studied in detail. Tropes are a general term that collectively includes metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and allusion, as described below, and are ultimately a term very close to metaphor. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "trope" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…〈あや〉とは,平常の表現とは異なって目立つ表現形式のことであり,たとえば,文型のあやとしての語句挿入,省略,転置,反復など,思考のあやとしての緩叙,対比,擬人など,100を越える型が技法として説明されていた。そういう多様な〈ことばのあや〉のうちで,とくに語の意味を変様させる表現形式は〈転義trope〉と呼ばれ,特別あつかいで詳細に研究されていた。〈転義〉は,後述するような隠喩,換喩,提喩,諷喩などを一括する総称であり,結果的には〈比喩〉ときわめて近い用語である。…

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