It can create a rich and multi-dimensional meaning in a text, revealing author`s attitude and perspective towards a subject while also eliciting emotional responses from the reader or listener.
Interaction of different types of lexical meanings
Based on the intensification of a certain feature of a thing(simile, hyperbole)
Special use of set expressions
Lexical and contextual meanings
to this group belong:
Metaphor – identification between two things that have or seem to have nothing in common “Life is a journey”
Metonymy – substitution or reference of thing by mentioning another associated or partially related to it logically “ the pen is mightier than the sword”
Oxymoron – two words of opposing meaning combine grammatically e.g. The impatient patients looked at nurses in fear. He moved expressively silent eyes from side to side as if trying to find something They calmly ran through the backstreet
Simile – comparing two things that belong to different nature or domain e.g. “she looked at me with eyes like moonless night”
Hyperbole – exaggeration “she blink ten thousand times in astonishment”
special use of set expressions
Proverbs or sayings e.g. “No pain, no gain”
Epigrams – concise and clever statement or poem that expresses a witty or satirical idea in a memorable way. e.g. - “ there is no “I” in team” - “but coach, there is an “I” in win”
