Articulus(ar-tic’-u-lus): Roughly equivalent to “phrase” in English, except that the emphasis is on joining several phrases (or words) successively without any conjunctions (in which casearticulusis simply synonymous with the Greek termasyndeton). See alsobrachylogia. It had snowed for four...
For an example of chiasmus with synonymous ideas, look at this simple sentence. "Walked" is a synonym for "ambled," and "tiredly" is a synonym for "drowsily." We walked tiredly; drowsily, we ambled along toward the hotel. The next sentence, on the other hand, is a case of ...
Syllepsis(sil-lep’-sis): When a single word that governs or modifies two or more others must be understood differently with respect to each of those words. A combination of grammatical parallelism and semantic incongruity, often with a witty or comical effect. Not to be confused withzeugma: ...
Alexander Pope was known to use chiasmus examples in his works. In his poem “An Essay on Man” we can see a chiasmus in the line “His time a moment, and a point his space.” In this case, the related concepts are once again not synonymous. However, the inverted units of meaning ...
Zurvanism, a Zoroastrian heretical movement (c.3rd/4th centurybce–7th centuryce), was also dualistic. The very names of Zurvān (Time-Destiny) and the partially synonymouszamān(“time”) already appear in the later Avesta and in medieval treatises, in which Time is themilieuin which Ormazd...
This is an EX-PARROT!, emphasizes an idea by expressing it in a string of generally synonymous phrases or statements epistrophe When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child." Corinthians 13:11 epithet Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know ...
with the implicit assumption that wisdom and eloquence were not necessarily synonymous and that truth and integrity were ultimately dependent upon the character of the speaker. The orator, according toCato the Elder, must be a good man skilled in speaking. Through the writings ofCicero, the ancien...