Abstract
This article analyzes the rhetoric in Machado de Assis’s "O segredo do Bonzo" by demonstrating the linguistic nature of the fantastic images of its discourse, the result of a technique that accounts articulating the ridiculous and thus producing a comic effect. Our stance opposes a reading of Machado de Assis’s texts founded in an assumed realism, and we aim to show the metaphors’ effects of meaning that are replicated in "O segredo do Bonzo," thus formalizing the allegory and trope of thought that is understood here as an efficient driver for this narration.
rhetoric; fantastic; Machado de Assis; allegory; comic