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Metalogisms In Alexandru Macedonski's Lyrical Creation

2017; Linguagem: Inglês

10.15405/epsbs.2017.05.02.38

2357-1330

Elena Gagiu-Pedersen,

Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

The main approach of this paper is the analysis of the metalogisms identified in Alexandru Macedonskis lyrical creation, the educational purpose of this paper being related to developing the students creative and logical thinking, their abilities of analysis, their spirit of observation and their capacity of research. In the beginning, the emphasis is laid on a short, theoretical description of metalogisms, which are figures of thinking, connected with logic and analyzed according to the relational and substantial rhetorical operations. The first metalogism which is analyzed is the hyperbole, which is created by the poet using the symbolistic technique of synestesy. Later on, the stress is laid on eight types of repetition: the anadiplosis, the epanode, the epizeuxis, the epanadiplosis, the anaphora, the epiphora, the epanalepsis, the refrain. Further, this paper focuses on highlighting the special stylistic effects generated by the pleonasm which is conceived by using the symbolistic process of chromatical synestesies. The last two metalogisms which are brought into relief by this paper are the antithesis and the irony.