10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SYNOECIOSIS»
Discover the use of
synoeciosis in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
synoeciosis and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Classical Rhetoric in English Poetry: With a New Preface and ...
One other virtue of Hoskins is his remarkable sensitivity to changes in style in his
lifetime (as he shrewdly said of synoeciosis or oxymoron : 'This is an easy figure
now in fashion, not like ever to be so usual', 37). In connection with the current ...
2
Rhetoric and Wonder in English Travel Writing, 1560-1613
Of the rhetorical figures, the most 'Metaphysical' is the oxymoron, or synoeciosis,
which was a favourite figure of Sidney's. John Hoskyns, who took Sidney's
Arcadia as his hunting-ground for rhetorical figures, defines synoeciosis as a ...
Jonathan P. A. Sell, 2006
3
"Almost Unnamable": Suicide in the Modernist Novel
We can therefore characterize “black diamonds” as a synoeciosis, a rhetorical
figure that exploits imbalance by ... or heterogeneous things” (“Synoeciosis”). can
see in the following passage: “Heyst had been sitting among the bones [of the ...
Christopher Damien Chung, 2008
4
Shakespeare and Language
Capulet use antimetabole with a twist that diminishes Juliet (line 77); Paris
reaches for synoeciosis, or oxymoron, and misses (line 73); and the recurring
epizeuxis - 'ctuel, ctuel', 'woeful, woeful, woeful', 'ever, ever', 'murder, murder' -
suggests ...
Catherine M. S. Alexander, 2004
5
The Cambridge Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare criticism
Lady Capulet use antimetabole with a twist that diminishes Juliet (line 77); Paris
reaches for synoeciosis, or oxymoron, and misses (line 73); and the recurring
epizeuxis - 'cruel, cruel', 'woeful, woeful, woeful', 'ever, ever', 'murder, murder' ...
Catherine M. S. Alexander, 2003
6
Elizabethan Rhetoric: Theory and Practice
Here Hoskins discusses the use oftwo figures related to antithesis, synoeciosis
and contentio. All but two ofthe examples have been omitted. Synoeciosis is a
composition of contraries, and by both words intimateth the meaning of neither ...
7
The text of Sidney's arcadian world
Corresponding, although not isomorphically, to these available categories of
opposition are several rhetorical figures recognized by the writers of
contemporary handbooks. Rendering reciprocal relations of opposites is the
figure synoeciosis, ...
Synoeciosis is a composition of contraries, and by both words intimateth the
meaning of neither precisely but a moderation and mediocrity of both ; as,
bravery and rags are contrary, yet somewhat better than both is brave
raggedness.
9
Dazzling Images: The Masks of Sir Philip Sidney
... ("Synoeciosis"14) providing a middle ground between "adjective" and
contradictory "substantive" as in "brave raggedness" — "a meaning of neither
precisely but a moderation and mediocrity of both" — his discussion leads to
assertion of 90 ...
10
Spenser's International Style
... 104, 106i07, 125, 129, 134, 138 paronomasia (pun) 18, 143, 146, 214, 220
periphrasis 203 polyptoton 97, 104 rhythm 121, 126 n. 64, 130 n. 86 sententia
203 similitudo 203 synoeciosis 128 n. 76 zeugma 107 Filelfo, Francesco 202
Fletcher, ...
David Scott Wilson-Okamura, 2013
