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Methods > Figures of speech > Antiphrasis

Preferred term

2558Antiphrasis  

Broader concept

Scope note

  • Antiphrasis is a figure of speech in which a phrase or a word is employed in a way that is opposite to its literal meaning, in order to create an ironic, sarcastic or comic effect. Forms of antiphrasis are: litotes, irony and euphemism.

Source

  • Τζάρτζανος 1989

Contributor

  • Katsiadakis Helen (AA)

Creator

  • Kalafata Patritsia (AA)

Notation

  • 2558

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