Exercise Your Figures > Exercise 3: Figure for Nicknames
antonomasia
March 2, 2012 |
Gnftr05
Gnftr05
I will name the figure Ate, since Antonomasia is already taken.
March 23, 2012 |
Eric
Eric
Antonomasia, Periphrasis and Circumlocution.
February 3, 2013 |
Dattaprasad Godbole
Dattaprasad Godbole
But if i had to 'name' the figure, i'd call it - Nicknamer.
February 3, 2013 |
Dattaprasad Godbole
Dattaprasad Godbole
Word Hero Preface
"Booter" is a nickname. It's also a figure; knowing the technique can help your students come up with their own hilarious lifelong forms of humiliation. (Oh, come on, they will anyway; you're just helping the kids make them witty.) Can you name the figure?