Anthimeria

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 * D** **efinition::** Anthimeria, in rhetoric, is the use of a word as if it were a member of a different word class (part of speech). Usually, it is the use of a noun as a verb in a sentence.


 * Origin::** Can also be called "antimeria".


 * Articles:: [|New York Times]**

"I'll unhair thy head." ( [|Shakespeare], // [|Antony and Cleopatra] //, II, v.) "The thunder would not //peace// at my bidding". ( [|Shakespeare], // [|King Lear] //, IV, vi.)
 * Examples::**

Definition taken from (wikipedia.org).


 * Examples** from text:

1) "There lay the shirt, folded into its familiar greenness, a small, thick square of material." ("Allechka" by Deborah Kaple, part of the NPR 3 Minute Stories).
 * In this short sentence, the word "greenness" is used as a noun when in actuality, it is an adjective. It is not possible to fold something into the color that it consists of. Therefore, this sentence utilizes the rhetorical strategy of anthimeria.

2) "As was to be expected, all the commanders, who, according to custom, turned up the following day to take in the sun and to chat a bit in the Zocodover, made no dish about anything but that of the arrival of another company of dragoons, whose commander we left in the small chapter sleeping, his person unencumbered and resting from the fatigues of the journey." ("El Beso" by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer).
 * From this excerpt, one can see the phrase "made no dish" is used as an anthimeria because normally, the phrase would mean that he made no dish in the sense that he made no food. However, here, it is used to mean that he made no argument of discussion with those around him.



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