syncrisis
A figure of speech in which opposite things, people etc. are compared.
Noun
- A figure of speech in which opposite things, people etc. are compared.
- Other aspects were also taken into consideration in the pansophic method, ensuing from the syncrisis of the general and particular. - 1984, Marie Kyralová, Symposium Comenianum 1982: The Impact of J.A. Comenius on...
- 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...
- 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...
Origin
From Ancient Greek σύν (sún, “with, together”) + κρίσις (krísis, “judge”).