French/English Glossary of Linguistic Terms

French word list

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	figure
	figuré
	figure de construction
	figure de diction
	figure de mots
	figure de pensée
	figure (de rhétorique)
	figure de signification
	figure de style
	figure d'élocution
	figure d'expression
	figurer
	filtrage
	filtre1
	filtre2

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figure de signification

[Subentry of figure (de rhétorique), signification]

Eng    trope

Synonym(s): figure de mots, figure d'expression, trope

Kinds: allégorie, hyperbole, ironie, litote, méiose, métaphore, métonymie, oxymoron, personnification, sarcasme, synecdoque, tapinose

Type of: figure (de rhétorique)

Related term(s): tropologie

Domain: Rhetorics

Source(s): Arrivé etal. 1986: 269; Baylon & Fabre 1978: 196; Charaudeau & Maingueneau 2002: 263; Dubois etal. 1994: 203; Ducrot & Schaeffer 1995: 481-482; Mounin 1974: 140; Pottier 1973: 262

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English word list

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	triliteral root
	trill
	trilled
	trimodal
	trimodal structure
	triphthong
	triphthongization
	triptote
	trisyllabic
	trisyllable
	trivalent
	trivalent verb
	trochaic foot
	trochee
	trope

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