All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Catachresis: A Way Too Scary Game When Jeff, noted ghostologist, is called in late one night, he knows that he has a job to do. What he doesn't know is ...

As you might have guessed, “catachresis” is a word mostly used by grammarians and teachers of grammar. It can sometimes be used merely as a label of disparagement for uses the grammarian finds ...

And yet the catachresis has entered the language as a familiar phrase. In his play King John, he gave us another memorable example of the genre, when the King says, “I do not ask much: I beg ...

For behind the catachresis of “a foremost” is the deeper malaise of the collapse of the vocation of true, relevant and humanistic intellectualism in our country and our era.

With just over 8200 students, Rhodes is a small University, which enjoys the distinction of having among the best undergraduate pass and graduation rates in South Africa, outstanding postgraduate ...

Although many Americans heard Barack Obama's inauguration speech, they probably weren't listening for plyptotons and catachresis — but Geoff Nunberg was. Nunberg teaches at the University of ...

For them, catachresis is cringe-worthy (just Google ‘catachresis’ to understand). And to these purists, Alex Filippenko, astrophysicist and professor at UC Berkeley, lends his support.

Style, Vol. 21, No. 4, Annotated Bibliography 1986: Tropes/Meter (Winter 1987), pp. 589-606 (18 pages) The "master tropes" of metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony inform style, characterization, ...