periphrasis
The periphrase ( Greek περί peri , around 'and φράζειν phrazein , to speak'; Latin circumlocutio ) is an expanding description of a term, a person or a fact.
Examples:
- Demigods in white (doctors)
- the father of the economic miracle ( Ludwig Erhard )
- pressed milk (cheese)
- that higher being we worship (God)
- the almighty (god)
- the eye of the law (police)
- the land of milk and honey, the promised land (Canaan)
- the Holy Land (Israel)
Periphrases are often used to avoid repeating a term. They are also used to euphemistically express facts , e.g. B. to die instead of dying .
See also
- Paraphrase
- Antonomasia
- Stylistic devices
- Trope (rhetoric)
- Verbal Periphrase (Spanish)
- Verbal periphrase
literature
- Tetjana Midjana: The Periphrase . Stauffenburg-Verlag, Tübingen 2005. ISBN 3-86057-786-7 .
- Monika Vogel: Ter quinque volumes. Number periphrase in Latin poetry from its beginnings to the second century AD. Aschendorff, Münster 2014. ISBN 978-3-402-14448-0 .
Web links
Wiktionary: Periphrase - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
