Noun(1) strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant', as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths'(2) strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths')
Noun(1) strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant', as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths'(2) strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths')
(1) English and American studies, especially, seemed to be focusing on narrative and drama in ways that excluded from study bizarre and interesting phenomena such as obsessive rhythm and catachresis .(2) Its transformation seems more catachresis than irony, more a twisted similarity than an inversion or negation.(3) But these are not, properly speaking, assistants, but are called so only in a catachrestic manner, by a kind of abuse of language, for they are found in reality to be enemies to man.(4) If the narrator's loss of a proper name were catachrestic - a radical misnaming - then we could posit a potential possession of his proper name by virtue of the presupposed latent proper name in the notion of u2018misnaming.u2019
