CRESCENDO-RHYTHMIC  

節奏趨上法 The arranging of elements in an order of increasing length.

Hypernym
  • CRESCENDORHETORICAL STYLE in which the constituents of a clause, sentence, or paragraph have progressively increasing weight so that the last member in particular is the intended as the most important.
    • RHETORICAL STYLE體裁詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE which is mainly concerned with matters of style of presentation rather than distribution of expressions or semantic structure.
Hyponym
  • CRESCENDO-RHYTHMIC+SEMANTIC節奏加語義趨上法 The arranging of elements in an order of increasing length and importance.Traditionally: auxesis, governed by the famous "Gesetz der wachsenden Glieder".
    This figure has many names. One technical term for CRESCENDO is AUXESIS. This phenomenon has received a great deal of attention in Western stylistics under the extraordinary name GESETZ DER WACHSENDEN GLIEDER. See Hoffmann-Szantyr 掇 monumental Latin grammar on this important patterning.

    Rhetorical device locations: 21
    • 百喻經 “人從何生。” 答曰 人從穀而生 問曰 五穀從何而生 答曰 五穀從四大火風而生

      This exemplified the "law of increasing length of members".

    • 韓非子 故越王好勇 而民多輕死 楚靈王好細腰 而國中多餓人 齊桓公妬而好內 故豎刁自宮以治內
    • 韓非子

      君／君／人主

    • 韓非子 故子之託於賢 以奪其君者也 豎刁
    • 韓非子 盲，
    • 韓非子 積德而後神靜， 神靜而後和多 和多而後計得 計得而後能御萬物
    • 道德經 人法地， 地法天 天法道 道法自然
    • 論語 鮮矣； 不好犯上而好作亂者 未之有也

      鮮／未之有

    • 論語 其為仁之本與！」

      The longest line is the last.

    • 論語 敬事而信， 節用而愛人

      Problematic case. The heavier phrase 愛人 comes in the second, not in the first member of the PARISON.

    • 論語 「弟子， 入則孝 出則悌 謹而信 汎愛眾而親人 行有餘力 則以學文
    • 論語 「慎終， 追遠 民德歸厚矣
    • 論語 「父在， 觀其志 父沒 觀其行 三年無改於父之道 可謂孝矣
    • 論語 「信近於義， 言可復也 恭近於禮 遠恥辱也 因不失其親 亦可宗也

      The point about marriage is the one that is elaborated.

    • 論語 未若貧而樂， 富而好禮者也

      樂 shorter than 好禮

    • 論語 「吾十有五而志于學， 三十而立 四十而不惑 五十而知天命 六十而耳順 七十而從心所欲 不踰矩

      The first five members have a single phrase second part after the 而 , the last one has a two-sentence second part.

    • 論語 「生，事之以禮； 死葬之以禮 祭之以禮

      Lines 10 and 11 go together as what is to be done after death.

    • 論語 始作， 翕如也 從之 純如也 皦如也 繹如也
    • 論語 可以語上也； 中人以下 不可以語上也
    • 論語 升車， 必正立 執綏 車中不內顧 不疾言 不親指
    • 論語 「求也退， 故進之 由也兼人 故退之