Interaction of different types of lexical meaning

Interaction of different types of lexical meaning

​Metaphor - transference of names based on the associated likeness between two objects

​Personification - when a metaphor involves likeness between inanimate and animate objects

​Metonymy - based on contiguity (nearness) of objects or phenomena.

Multiple Choice

Leaving Daniel to his fate, she was conscious of joy springing in her heart.

• metaphor

• metonymy

Multiple Choice

Dinah, a slim, fresh, pale eighteen, was pliant and yet fragile.

• metaphor

• personification

• metonymy

Multiple Choice

They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate. (W.G.)

• metaphor

• personification

• metonymy

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Zeugma - the use of one word in the same grammatical but different semantic relations.

Pun, quibble, or paronomasia – a play on words.

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​Irony - a SD based on a direct contrast of two notions: the notion named and the notion meant.

Multiple Choice

After a while and a cake he crept nervously to the door of the parlour. (A. T.)

• pun

• zeugma

• irony

Multiple Choice

I believed all men were brothers; she thought all men were husbands. I gave the whole mess up. (Jn.B.)

• pun

• zeugma

• irony

Multiple Choice

When I am dead, I hope it may be said:

"His sins were scarlet, but his books were read." (H. B.)

• pun

• zeugma

Multiple Choice

Bookcases covering one wall boasted a half-shelf of literature. (T.C.)

• pun

• zeugma

• irony

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Antonomasia – a proper name used for a common one or vice versa.

​Epithet  – an unusual description of a phenomenon.

​Oxymoron  – two successive words (mostly an adjective and a noun, or an adverb and an adjective), the meanings of which clash, being opposite in sense.

Multiple Choice

There were some bookcases of superbly unreadable books. (E.W.)

• antonomasia

• epithet

• oxymoron

Multiple Choice

"You cheat, you no-good cheat - you tricked our son. Took our son with a scheming trick, Miss Tomboy, Miss Sarcastic, Miss Sncerface." (Ph. R.)

• antonomasia

• epithet

• oxymoron

Multiple Choice

He caught a ride home to the crowded loneliness of the barracks. (J.)

• antonomasia

• epithet

• oxymoron

Multiple Choice

In the cold, gray, street-washing, milk-delivering, shutters-coming-off-the-shops early morning, the midnight train from Paris arrived in Strasbourg. (H.)

• antonomasia

• epithet

• oxymoron