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Preferred term

rhetorical figure  

Broader concept

Synonym(s)

  • stylistic device

Example

  • Another stylistic device which is sometimes used in literary text is gender confusion. (Roesiger, Schulz & Reiter, 2018)
  • Automatic detection of stylistic devices is an important tool for literary studies e.g. for stylometric analysis or argument mining. (Schneider, Barz, Brandes, Marshall & Denzler, 2021)
  • Since our candidate mining approach also allows all four PoS tags to be identical (i.e. A A A A instead of A B B A) we found that many of the false positives among the top 100 displayed another stylistic device: the parallelism. (Schneider, Barz, Brandes, Marshall & Denzler, 2021)
  • Songwriters deploy unique stylistic devices to build their lyrics. (Fell & Sporleder, 2014)
  • These ambiguities can be used intentionally as a stylistic device in literary texts. (Roesiger, Schulz & Reiter, 2018)

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