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单词 counter-turn
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counter-turnn.

Etymology: In senses 1, 2 formed to render Greek ἀντιστροϕή ; in senses 3, 4 < counter- prefix 2e.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcounter-ˌturn.
1. = antistrophe n. 3. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > lyric poem > [noun] > ode > antistrophe
conversion1552
counter-turna1637
turnagain1871
a1637 B. Jonson Under-woods lxx, in Wks. (1640) III The Turne... The Counter-turne.
2. Prosody. Used by Puttenham for the continued reptition of the same word at the end of successive clauses; = Latin conversio. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > repetition > at end of successive clauses
epistrophe1582
counter-turn1589
epiphora1678
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 166 The Greekes call this figure Antistrophe, the Latines, conuersio, I following the originall call him the counterturne, because he turnes counter in the middest of euery meetre.
3. A turn in the contrary direction.
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the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > unexpected event or course of events
went1338
emergent1620
emergencya1631
counter-turninga1668
emergencea1676
counter-turn1744
go1783
contretemps1809
turn-up1884
1744 E. Haywood Female Spectator (1748) II. 101 Some turns and counter-turns in politics.
a1807 W. Wordsworth Prelude (1959) xi. 440 Amid the turns and counter-turns, the strife And various trials of our complex being.
4. In a dramatic composition, an unexpected turn or development of the plot at the climax.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > plot > parts of plot
envoy1616
undermirth1640
counter-turn1651
under-walk1651
deus ex machina1697
happy ending1748
dénouement1752
anagnorisis1783
comic relief1783
by-play1812
tragic irony1833
by-plot1851
dramatic irony1881
plot point1909
cliff-hanging1945
subtext1960
1651 W. Davenant Gondibert Pref. The fourth [Act]..gives..a counterturn to that main design which chang'd in the third.
1668 J. Dryden Of Dramatick Poesie 16 The Catastasis, or Counter-turn..imbroyles the action in new difficulties.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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