#periphrasis

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Perhaps the easiest concept out of these to understand is tense, which tells about the verb's location on the timeline. There are two types of tense; relative and absolute. The majority of inflexional morphology that appears on verbs is absolute tense, as it describes the grammatical expression of time as it relates to the moment of speaking. This includes the basic past, present, and future. Less common, however, is relative tense, which is often split up into two tenses; the strict relative tense, and the absolute-relative tense. The strict relative tense expresses time as it relates to the reference point, with no relation to the moment of speech. The absolute-relative tense, however, shows a point in time that relates to another point in time while all being in relation to the present moment. While the absolute tense is customarily synonymous with the three basic tenses, (past, present, future) many languages allow many different variants or completely different tenses. As an example, the language Bamiléké Dschang of the Niger-Congo language family splits its tense system up into five past tenses and five future tenses. The first layer of the past tense communicates the immediate past. The second refers to anything prior that day. The third refers to the previous day. The fourth is used in reference to an event that happened a few days previous. The fifth and final layer refers to anything that happened a year or more in the past. The future tenses are all within the same proportions but on the opposite side on the timeline.

n. a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things

2. an expression pphrased in such fashion

Mary Shelley combines polyptoton with periphrastic naming, which is the technique of referring to someone using several indirect names. The creature in Frankenstein is referred to by many names, such as "fiend", "devil", "being", and "ogre". However, the first name that Shelley uses in reference to the creature is "wretch". Throughout the novel, various forms of the term are used, such as "wretchedly" and "wretchedness", which is indicative of polyptoton. According to Duyfhuizen, the gradual development of polyptoton in Frankenstein is significant because it symbolizes the intracacies of one's own identity.