How to use Catachresis in a sentence

4+ sentence examples found: 1. Surely you were using a catachresis when you said, “his cheating is the straw that broke the elephant’s back.”2. When writing, the author used a catachresis when he replaced “stuffed” with “stuck”.

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Catachresis in Sentence Examples

1. Surely you were using a catachresis when you said, “his cheating is the straw that broke the elephant’s back.”

2. When writing, the author used a catachresis when he replaced “stuffed” with “stuck”.

3. The poet’s catachresis made a mixed metaphor when he replaced the word “mouse” with “mouth”.

4. Shakespeare misused words in his work, with one example being the catachresis in the line “"His complexion is perfect gallows."

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