TLS - RHET-DEV

MEIOSIS

IRIONIA consisting in belittling one thing in order to emphasise the real greatness of another.

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IRONIAHISTRIONIC way of expressing something by playfully creating an appearance of claiming its opposite, typically assuming one's playfulness to be understood by the intended audience. The use of words to express something diametrically different from their meaning, or in a histrionically mediated sense. test

HISTRIONICSRHETORICAL TROPE which crucially involves playful dissimulation of one's real meaning.
- RHETORICAL TROPE體裁詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of expressions.
  - RHETORICAL DEVICE詞格　METHOD of adorning discourse.

Figures of Speech Used in the Bible. Explained and Illustrated ( BIBLE/BULLINGER 1898) p. 155

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Developed at the Center for Innovative Informatics of the Humanities, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University, with support from the Dean for Research, Department of East Asian Studies, and Program in East Asian Studies, Princeton University.

Development supported by the sin-aps research group at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen Nürnberg, with financial support from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Hosted by Princeton University, Department of East Asian Studies, in cooperation with Ruhr University Bochum, Center for the Study of Traditional Chinese Cultures .

Support from Heidelberg University - Cluster of Excellence - Asia and Europe in a Global Context and IKOS - University of Oslo gratefully acknowledged.

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