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Catachresis and the amusing, aweful and artificial cathedral Stan Carey
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Understanding Catachresis: The Art of Mastering Classical Rhetoric for Effective Communication rephrasely.com
Catachresis in Early Surrealist Poetry: Robert Desnos' "Ideal Maîtresse" Artur B Evans Romantic Review (1988)
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Crossing categorical boundaries with words, because there otherwise would be no suitable word.
The sustainers of a chair being referred to as legs.Replacing an expected word with another, half rhyming word, with an entirely different meaning from what one would expect (cf malapropism, Spoonerism).
I'm ravished! for "I'm ravenous!" or for "I'm famished!" "They build a horse" instead of they build a house.The strained use of an already existing word or phrase.
"Tis deepest winter in Lord Timon's purse" — Shakespeare, Timon of AthensThe replacement of a word with a more ambiguous synonym.
Saying job-seeker instead of "unemployed"Surrealism & Politics Ara H Merjian Art in America (2022)
...The Surrealists were drawn to the suggestive power of objects displaced from their original context and set into new, allusive frameworks, whether in the cityscapes of the Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico or the "painted collages" of Max Ernst. Physical dislodgment, which the Surrealists sometimes called dépaysement (literally: uncountrying, displacement from home), bespoke a potential disruption of meaning, and hence also of social and political ramifications. If the impulsions of automatic writing and painting eluded ideological pragmatism, the visual consequence of incongruity (of catachresis, parapraxia, and their various cognates) held some promise in the domain of a political aesthetics.The Best Metaphors and Similes The HyperTexts.com
...Catachresis is the use of words in inappropriate or unconventional ways. Another definition of catachresis is "an exaggerated comparison for rhetorical effect." Here's an example of good catachresis, from Francis Bacon: "A man that studies revenge keeps his own wounds green." Two lovely examples of catachresis can be found in the highly unconventional poetry of e. e. cummings: "the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses / nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands."Toward a Rhetoric of Spatial Form: Some Implications of Frank's Theory Lynda D. Mcneil Comparative Literature Studies (1980) JSTOR