Italy 2002. These were some fun and small exercises for a course in illustration. They are basically meant as rhetorical images, examples on the various "tools" and means for communication through illustration. From left to right and from top to bottom, they translate or mean roughly: repetition, meta, "the part for all", "change of weight", periphrasis, "change of color", paradox, antithesis, ossomoro(couldn't translate that), similarity, hyperbola/excess.

I'm quite sure I didn't get them all spot on due to some difficulties in understanding but looking at them now I think I got most of them right :)