figure of speech

[Unregistered]

I cannot recollect what figure of speech is "silken colour".
PLEASE HELP.
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[Raymott]

I cannot recollect what figure of speech is "silken colour".
PLEASE HELP.
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Is it a figure of speech? It seems to have the literal meaning of "the colour of silk". Do you have other examples; or what is the figurative content that needs explaining?

[svartnik]

Part of speech? Maybe that is what the OP meant.

[Soup]

Is it a figure of speech? It seems to have the literal meaning of "the colour of silk".

Well, for example, a silk scarf is made of silk, whereas a silken scarf is as soft as silk, feels like silk. One cannot feel a color though, which means that silken color is metaphorical.

[Raymott]

Well, for example, a silk scarf is made of silk, whereas a silken scarf is as soft as silk, feels like silk. One cannot feel a color though, which means that silken color is metaphorical.

If that's what the OP means, the term is synesthesia
"cross-sensory metaphors (e.g., "loud shirt," "bitter wind" or "prickly laugh") "

[konungursvia]

Isn't the analogy with wood/ wooden the one that applies here? That is, silken might also be made of silk.

I think he's talking about synaesthesia too, unless he means in a physical sense that the colour of a fabric is literally shimmering.

[Soup]

Isn't the analogy with wood/ wooden the one that applies here? That is, silken might also be made of silk.

I think he's talking about synaesthesia too, unless he means in a physical sense that the colour of a fabric is literally shimmering.

"he"?

[konungursvia]

Assuming the OP is not a female. Sounds like a male style.

[Soup]

Assuming ... .

My heart ...

[konungursvia]

Okay, let's go with "he or she". ;)