单词 | counter-turn |
释义 | counter-turnn.ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1589 |
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