Syncrisis

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

(rhetoric) A figure of speech in which opposite things, people etc. are compared..

Example Sentences

Other aspects were also taken into consideration in the pansophic method, ensuing from the syncrisis of the general and particular.

Although it is tempting to look at colour in terms of each energia ^([sic]) in turn (what could be said about a chromatic analysis of anemographia? ) for our purposes here, we will continue to focus on the temporal and spatial planes that articulate the figural cadences created by syncrisis.

Plutarch scholarship has long shown an intrest in syncrisis as described in the progymnasmata because of the convention's prominence in the Parallel Lives, which set individual Roman generals, politicians, etc., beside individual Greek generals, politicians, etc. in paired bioi, most of the pairs being followed by a formal, non-narrative comparison of the two figures.

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