DECRESCENDO
RHETORICAL STYLE in which the constituents of a sentence or paragraph have decreasing weight.
趨下法 The arranging of elements in an order of decreasing weight or length.
Also known as ANTICLIMAX.
Hypernym
- 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.
- RHETORICAL
DEVICE詞格 METHOD of adorning discourse.
Hyponym
- PARALLELISM+DECRESCENDO對偶下趨法 PARALLISM with decrescendo
Rare both in Greek/Latin and in Chinese. Not in Lausberg. Lanham. Renaissance
term See Miriam 152 on catacosmesis.
EX: Lanman: Some see an unwitting instance in the Yale University motto: "For God, for Country, and for Yale."
Greek/Latin: The term is not classical, and the phenomenon is so rare that one is not sure whether it is ever deliberate.
Ancient Chinese: The figure is uncommon. I can certainly think of no example where this form is employed deliberately.
LY: There are many more examples than have been recorded so far.
EX: Lanman: Some see an unwitting instance in the Yale University motto: "For God, for Country, and for Yale."
Greek/Latin: The term is not classical, and the phenomenon is so rare that one is not sure whether it is ever deliberate.
Ancient Chinese: The figure is uncommon. I can certainly think of no example where this form is employed deliberately.
LY: There are many more examples than have been recorded so far.
Rhetorical device locations: 1
- 論語
必正席 先嘗之 君賜腥 必熟而薦之 君賜生 必畜之