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| in a metaphor is the original subject. If I say 'you are a dog', then you are the tenor. If I say 'It's a dog day', then the tenor is the day. |
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| lessening of a harsher phrase |
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Phrase with words left out
I can play the guitar and so can he. |
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| cat's after me --> catastrophe |
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| in a metaphor is both the words and concepts that are invoked by the words. |
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The process of deriving general principles from particular facts or instances.
All ice I have ever touched was cold. All ice is cold. |
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| The process of reasoning in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the stated premises; inference by reasoning from the general to the specific. |
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| logical reasoning or argument by denial - a way of telling what something is by telling what it is not, or a process-of-elimination way of talking about something by talking about what it is not. |
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| device used to retract a statement just made, and then state it in a better way |
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