单词 | epanodos |
释义 | > as lemmasepanodos epanodos n. Brit. /ɛˈpanədɒs/ , /ᵻˈpanədɒs/ , U.S. /ɛˈpænəˌdɑs/ , /ᵻˈpænəˌdɑs/ (also erroneous15 epanodis, 16–18 epanados) (a) the repetition of a sentence in an inverse order; (b) a return to the regular thread of discourse after a digression. [ < post-classical Latin epanodos (a636 in Isidore; already in classical Latin as a Greek word in Quintilian) < ancient Greek ἐπάνοδος < ἐπ- ep- prefix + ἄνοδος anode n.] ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > repetition > of words in inverse order antimetabole1589 epanodos1589 eversion1678 antistrophe1728 antimetathesis- 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 184 Epanodis, or the figure of Retire. a1679 T. Hobbes Art of Rhetoric plainly set Forth in Art of Rhetoric (1681) v. 150 [Epanados]..signifieth a turning to the same tune. 1812 J. Jebb Let. 24 July in J. Jebb & A. Knox Thirty Years' Corr. (1834) II. 79 The epanodos, or..speaking first, to the latter of two propositions; afterwards, to the former. 1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Epanodos..a rhetorical figure, when a sentence or member is inverted, or repeated backward. < as lemmas |
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