For the Last-day/Thirty-first of August, 2012's "new word of the day":
Trope
Definition:
1. Figure of speech. That is: a word, phrase, expression, or image that
is used in a figurative way, usually for rhetorical effect
2. In medieval religious text. That is: a phrase or text interpolated into the service of the Mass
Now...Since I hardly ever can be found guilty of using: 'figures of speech'...
-The following, IMO, would probably the best (and most humerous!) source for
tropes:
"The Brand New Monty Python Papperbok" ~ Monty Python...
(which later was incorporated/amalgamated into):
"The Complete Works of Shakespeare and Monty Python": Vol. 1
~ Monty Python.
The tropes appear under the title, and to wit:
'Announcement for People Who Like Figures of Speech'
"Because of the Anagrams dispute it has been decided to devote the rest of this space
to a page specially written for people who like figures of speech,
for the not a few fans of litotes, and those with no small interest in meiosis,
for the infinite millions of hyperbole-lovers, for those fond of hypallage, and the epithet's golden transfer,
for those who fall willingly into the arms of the metaphor, those who give up the ghost,
bury their heads in the sand and ride roughshod over the
mixed metaphor, and even those of hyperbaton the friends.
It will be, too, for those who reprehend the malapropism; who love the wealth of metonymy;
for all friends of rhetoric and syllepsis; and zeugmatists with smiling eyes and hearts.
It will bring a large absence of unsatisfactory malevolence to periphrastic fans;
a wig harm bello to spoonerists; and in no small measure
a not less than splendid greeting to you circumlocutors.
The world adores prosopopeiasts, and the friendly faces of synechdotists,
and can one not make those amorous of anacoluthon understand that
if they are not satisfied by this, what is to happen to them?
It will attempt to really welcome all splitters of infinitives, all who are Romeo and Juliet to antonomasia,
those who drink up similes like sparkling champagne, who lose nothing compared
with comparison heads, self-evident axiomists, all pithy aphorists,
apothegemists, maximiles, theorists, epigrammatists and even gnomists.
And as for the lovers of aposiopesis--!
It will wish bienvenu to all classical adherents of euphuism, all metathesistic birds,
golden paronomasiasts covered in guilt, fallacious paralogists, tropists,
anagogists, and anaphorists; to greet, welcome, embrace asyndeton buffs,
while the lovers of ellipsis will be well-met and its followers embraced,
as will be chronic worshipers of catachresis and
supporters of anastrophe the world over".
Go Figure!!
Bob
rops:^^^^
..it seems) to do so!!
