(10) Similarity-based tropes abound, whereas Norman Knox limits the difference-based ones to irony, sarcasm, antiphrasis , asteismus, micterismus, and charientismus (36).

(29) This uniting of opposite concepts works not only typologically but linguistically in the movements of rhetorical tropes, for as Augustine argues in Contra Mendacium, the contrary images of metaphor or antiphrasis can produce aesthetic and epistemological closure, revealing truth through an apparent lie.

Baron distinguishes between films that offer ' antiphrasis irony', "in which the unsaid is the exact opposite of what is said," from those that present 'inclusive irony': "a polysemic form of irony in which multiple meanings are held in tension with one another indefinitely" (37).

The mechanism by which utopian sub-genres are generated is inversion, with all its philosophical and rhetorical variations: opposition, contrast, paradox, antinomy, antithesis, antiphrasis , oxymoron, etc.

(7) In Irony's Edge, Linda Hutcheon explains that reducing verbal irony to its opposite meaning, or antiphrasis , not only excludes certain kinds of verbal irony such as hyperbole, but also contains some ambiguity about what part of the statement ought to inverted (60-61).

The confessional writer often jams the unity of his work with the pledge of overruling the self-conscious transcription of his life, by overdetermining its parts, hence, its characteristic ambiguity, splitting, antiphrasis and interference.

The language of consumerism is used to satirise the body of consumerism through antiphrasis . Inconsistent elements made into these works cause visual and mental discomfort to fragment the situation of seeing and being seen and to reach an anti-see and anti-consume goal so as to strongly resist the prevailing trends of the making body full of desires in the material society.

"My favourite car back in the garage in the UK is the complete antiphrasis of a McLaren, and that's a Morgan.

With all my love, Phil." One finds in this dedication his usual self-deprecation and lack of self-seriousness, but there is also, by antiphrasis , the recognition of the virtual unsalability of academic writing.

This denial is not so obvious in the Spanish corpus, in which the antiphrasis death-life appears in MORIR ES VIVIR EN EL RECUERDO ('to die is to live in memory'), a metaphor that lacks the explicitly positive overtones of DEATH IS A JOYFUL LIFE.

Antiphrasis , as it is technically called, is the use of an expression to mean the opposite of its usual sense, for instance saying that's wonderful when one really thinks something is terrible.