- Enantiosis
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The ying-yang symbol which illustrates opposites together.
Enantiosis, synoeciosis or discordia concors is a rhetorical device in which opposites are juxtaposed so that the contrast between them is striking.[1] Examples include the famous maxim of Augustus, festina lente (hasten slowly),[2] and the following passage from Paul's second letter to the Corinthians:[3]
“ By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.” See also
References
- ^ J.W.Marchand, "Acyrologia in the poems of Ausia March", Estudis de llengua, literatura i cultura catalanes, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_kd_nBXJ3hAC&pg=PA184
- ^ Desiderius Erasmus, William Watson Barker (2001), "Festina lente", The adages of Erasmus, University of Toronto Press, p. 132, ISBN 0802048749, http://books.google.com/books?id=VmJn6IFMyicC
- ^ Thomas Gibbons (1767), "The ENANTIOSIS considered", Rhetoric, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EPKUzUwwg70C&pg=PA247
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