Figure of thought
A figure of thought is a type of rhetorical figure . In contrast to word figures (e.g. anaphors , ellipses , etc.), the thought figure is used to structure a train of thought (e.g. through questions, adverbs, antitheses ). While word figures relate to a word itself, figures of thought are particularly recognizable by a certain syntax ; this also includes sentence figures ( paratax , hypotax , parallelism , etc.).
literature
- Heinrich Lausberg : Handbook of literary rhetoric. A foundation of literary studies. 3rd ed. With a foreword by Arnold Arens . Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-515-05503-7 , pp. 309 f., § 602.