单词 | antiphrasis |
例句 | And sometimes a name employs what the Greeks called antiphrasis. Perspective | What’s in a name? For animals at the National Zoo, all sorts of considerations. 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z Besides all the fine things above described in my uncle's garden, there was also a rather unpleasant pavilion, which he had entitled the Délices, doubtless by antiphrasis. One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules 2012-04-08T02:00:23.693Z The antiphrasis, or the broad flout, when we deride by flat contradiction, antithetically calling a dwarf a giant; or addressing a black woman, “In sooth ye are a fair one!” Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Instances of antiphrasis in the names given to black slaves are very common. The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments Now, they were taunted with their very name, as having been bestowed upon them "by antiphrasis," i.e. by contraries. Chaucer |
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