A figure by which contrasted or heterogeneous things are associated or coupled, e.g. contrary qualities attributed to the same subject.
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| 释义 | society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > contradictory terms combined for effect (4) synœciosis1589 A figure by which contrasted or heterogeneous things are associated or coupled, e.g. contrary qualities attributed to the same subject. oxymoron1656 Rhetoric. A figure of speech in which a pair of opposed or markedly contradictory terms are placed in conjunction for emphasis. cross-coupling1685 Puttenham's term for the rhetorical figure synœciosis, ‘whereby heterogeneous things were combined or attributed to one person’. cross-couple- = cross-coupling n. |
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