Style and metaphorical language in «Los cigarrales de Toledo»

Abstract

This paper analyses the metaphorical language of Cigarrales de Toledo, emphasizing its variety and the presence of saturated semantic fields (economic, legal, medical, funeral, etc.) in unexpected contexts and often associated to the same characters. It evidences an intentional descriptive attention and a frequent use of enumeration, which —adding to metaphors, bisemie, paronomasie, and other various rhetorical figures— enriches the text of details and nuances. Another important element is the repeated habit of quantify all that is told, that is a lure to concreteness and an intentional compensation to the world of images.

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