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Antanagoge

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Ant`an`a`go´ge
n.1.(Rhet.) A figure which consists in answering the charge of an adversary, by a counter charge.
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Forms of negation are found everywhere in the text--nothusband, undefeat, and the like--which, like compressed units of antanagoge or metanoia, deny a meaning they simultaneously assert.
Shakespeare, Faulkner, and the expression of the tragic by Chesney, Duncan McColl / College Literature
For instance, up to now I have counted twenty-three types of devices of balance, including antanagoge, three kinds of doublets (antithetic, pleonastic and range), triplets (and other kinds of seriation), antimetabole, inclusio, and palindrome.
A Catalogue of Selected Rhetorical Devices Used in the Works of Edgar ... by Zimmerman, Brett / Style
Antanagoge can be compared to two other devices - antisagoge and compensatio - which involve a weighing, a balancing, a compensatory antithesis.
A catalogue of rhetorical and other literary terms from American ... by Zimmerman, Brett / Style
 
 
 
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