Tropes

I like the idea behind Tropes. Killingsworth relates it to a corrupt government; like killingsworth, authors we've read before have alluded to this idea but he says it very plainly. Language has become corrupt and his reasoning is our use of tropes hasn't evolved to fit into the the contemporary lexicon or they were false to begin with. Some tropes can be seen as Fallic, appealing to the ear but serving no real truth. There's also a quality of metawareness behind the tropes that hold true; rhetoric is an on going discourse between the speakers and the unknown. The speakers are human and the unknown is nature. The Nietchze quote is very powerful and I feel it reinforces my former statement.

The associative part of a trope is the relation it has to the concrete world of experience.
Before this article my experience with the word synechdoeche was a movie called "Synechdoche New York", now I realize how fitting the title for the movie is. The proteagonist is a lonely and dying starving artist, thats New York's most common factor, the average citizen.

Irony depends on tone and perspective to nod at the audience to reverse the meaning of the content; to irony context is crucial to decipher. I liked this article it broke down things I couldn't understand before I read it to a formulaic process.