As "atrevidas metáforas" da trova humorística

Abstract

This scientific article aims to examine humor in literary discourse, analyzing the humorous metaphor as an expression of joke. For this, it is used as corpus a set of humorous ballads, whose content is markedly sexual. Our analysis is anchored in theoretical assumptions of Stylistics and Semantics. We will demonstrate that there is a very significant relationship between the joke and the metaphor, so that the effects of a humorous sense are produced not only by the development of a theme considered laughable or comic, but also by the conscious exploration of the resources that the language has, especially in poetic texts.