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November 10, 2000

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Eoghan "I won't even mention apophasis" Olafson

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"One of these things is not like the others." On Sesame Street you might compare plane figures like triangles and trapezoids or perhaps types of fruit. Here the question applies to rhetorical devices. Which one of these figures "just doesn't belong here"?

catachresis
synechdoche
metonymy
metalepsis
hyberbaton

Explanation: Different hyperbaton is. Reverses normal word order like Yoda it does. The other figures of speech are all metaphorical. Synechdoche is a type of metaphor in which a genus is used for the species, the whole for a part, the object for the material that comprises it, or vice versa. Metonymy is similar but is based on association or contiguity (refering to the White House instead of the president for example). Metalepsis is metonymy with a dual meaning of the figurative term. Catachresis creates a mixed metaphor by unusual word usage (Verbing a noun, for example)

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Count	Percentage	Answer
Total Responses		448
Total Correct		246
Correct		54.91%
57	12.72%	catachresis
48	10.71%	synechdoche
48	10.71%	metonymy
49	10.94%	metalepsis
246	54.91%	hyberbaton

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