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Meaning of antífrasis



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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

antífrasis
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Contrary or ironic expression. Denoting sarcasm. It was a rhetorical figure used in Ancient Greece by which a condition or characteristic totally opposite to the real one was made known.

  



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He is a rhetorical figure who names something by his opposite or by a quality he lacks; it's usually an irony. It is the same name given to it by the ancient Greeks : 945; 957; 964; 953; 966; 961; 945; 963; 953; 962; ( "opposite expression" antiphrasis) .

  

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Alfredo Edgardo Alvarez Ahumada

UNDERSTATEMENTS.CONTRARY TO WHAT YOU THINK.

  










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