hendiadys
IPA: hˈɛndiˈɑdiz
noun
- (rhetoric) A figure of speech used for emphasis, where two words joined by and are used to express a single complex idea.
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Examples of "hendiadys" in Sentences
- The rhetorical point of interest is that that's hendiadys.
- Don't tell Mothra Stewart about hendiadys, whatever you do.
- English names for hendiadys include two for one and figure of twinnes.
- I'd like to claim that I use hendiadys consciously and of course evocatively!
- An unusual rhetorical device, hendiadys, appears in several places in the play.
- The process of editing my dissertation has become one long performance of getting rid of unnecessary hendiadys.
- Literally "one from two," hendiadys refers to a pair of words linked by "and" that expresses a single meaning neither word alone conveys.
- Three appendixes list instances of hendiadys in Hamlet, tabulate its incidence in all the plays, and discuss some misleading definitions in the OED.
- In all his plays Shakespeare uses the Vergilian figure hendiadys some three hundred times, most frequently in his middle plays and most of all in Hamlet.
- Rare in English speech or other English poetry, hendiadys joins nouns, or sometimes adjectives, in a false or specious union e.g., "sound and fury" for "furious sound".
- Fowler calls these and actually just about all the examples in this post--he follows the strict definition of hendiadys "Siamese twins," and is on a warpath against the tautological ones like "betwixt and between."
- The reflexive line that impugns the "sceptre bearing line" (l. 268) of violence transforms its word for sword, by phonetic anagram, and across the grammar of hendiadys, when the effect of conquest is said to "spread the plague of blood and gold."
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