Advances in the History of Rhetoric Jan 2019

The Fourth Master Trope, Antithesis

Randy Allen Harris University of Waterloo

Abstract

ABSTRACT The Four Master Tropes—metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony—are a significant theme in the history of rhetoric, but this grouping is wrong in fundamental ways—irony is not a trope at all properly understood, and the bulk of the arguments in this tradition suggest, along with a few new ones of my own, that the fourth Master Trope should be antithesis.

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Advances in the History of Rhetoric
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2019-01-02
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10.1080/15362426.2019.1569412
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