IRONIA-SUSTAINED  

IRONIA sustained over many sentences or paragraphs

幾句反話法　Irony sustained over several sentences.

Hypernym
  • 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.
Common in Greek and Latin, especially cultivated by Cicero, but fairly rare in pre-Buddhist literature.

    Rhetorical device locations: 5
    • 韓非子 “我笑勾踐也。 為人之如是其易也 己獨何為密密十年難乎
    • 韓非子 宰臣上炙而髮繞之。 文公召宰人而譙之曰 女欲寡人之哽耶 奚為以髮繞炙 宰人頓首再拜請曰 臣有死罪三 援礪砥刀 利猶干將也
    • 韓非子 臣有三罪， 死而不自知乎
    • 韓非子 “臣刀之利， 風靡骨斷而髮不斷 是臣之一死也 桑炭炙之 肉紅白而髮不焦 是臣之二死也

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    • 論語 子曰： 予欲無言 子貢曰 子如不言 則小子何述焉 子曰 天何言哉 四時行焉 百物生焉 天何言哉