What is it called when you talk about something that happened?

speculate. verb. to consider or discuss why something has happened or what might happen.

What is it called when you say something but the opposite happens?

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Antiphrasis is the rhetorical device of saying the opposite of what is actually meant in such a way that it is obvious what the true intention is. Some authors treat and use antiphrasis just as irony, euphemism or litotes.

What is it called to surround something?

encase. verb. to completely cover or enclose something.

What is it called when you refer to something as something else?

Metaphor and simile are ways of saying what something is by saying what it is like. (Note: metaphor and simile are pretty much the same. Metaphor says: Something IS something else. ‘He was an elephant.

What does entitle mean?

to give (a person or thing) a title, right, or claim to something; furnish with grounds for laying claim: His executive position entitled him to certain courtesies rarely accorded others.

What is it called when you reference something in literature?

allusion, in literature, an implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing or to a part of another text. Most allusions are based on the assumption that there is a body of knowledge that is shared by the author and the reader and that therefore the reader will understand the author’s referent.

What is it called when you see something and then see it everywhere?

What is it called when you see something and then see it everywhere? This is what you call the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. However, it is also known as frequency illusion and frequency bias. It is the phenomenon in which something you saw for the first time starts to “appear” everywhere.

What is it called when you say something and it comes true?

Because thinking is just mental energy, which stays in the mind. You have to bring it into the physical world. In this manner, what is it called when you say something and it comes true??? or Crow’s Mouth which means saying something unfortunate, and then it comes true.

What does it mean when you think of something and it happens?

Re: “What does it mean when you think of something and it happens?” The process is called Synchronicity and it is a natural consequence of how this universe really is as opposed to the approximations presented by Traditional Science. can thinking something make it happen? Originally Answered: Can thinking about something make it happen?

Why does it feel like something just happened the previous day?

But when we hear a word or name which we just learned the previous day, it often feels like more than a mere coincidence. This is because Baader-Meinhof is amplified by the recency effect, a cognitive bias that inflates the importance of recent stimuli or observations.