 THE perfection of Diction is for it to be at once clear and not mean. The clearest indeed is that made up of the ordinary words for things, but it is mean, as is shown by the poetry of Cleophon and Sthenelus.1 On the other hand the Diction becomes distinguished...  Legends of the Kings of Akkade: The Texts - Pagina 25di Joan Goodnick Westenholz - 1997 - 410 pagineAnteprima limitata - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Gilbert Murray - 1927 - 294 pagine
...The clearest is that which is made up of the 'regular' or 'proper' words for things (nvpia. ovo^ara), but it is mean, as is shown by the poetry of Cleophon and Sthenelus. [We might perhaps think of Crabbe or parts of Wordsworth.] To be impressive and avoid commonness (aenvri... | |
 | Albert Hofstadter, Richard Kuhns - 2009 - 730 pagine
...good of the speaker, if things appeared in the required light even apart from anything he says? 22 The perfection of Diction is for it to be at once...clearest indeed is that made up of the ordinary words for 20 things, but it is mean, as is shown by the poetry of Cleophon and Sthenelus. On the other hand the... | |
 | Amélie Rorty - 1996 - 476 pagine
...authors. This character of deviation is emphasized by other synonyms given by Aristotle for allotrios: "The perfection of Diction is for it to be at once...up of the ordinary words for things, but it is mean Diction becomes distinguished and non-prosaic by the use of unfamiliar terms [xenikon], ie, strange... | |
 | Donald A. Schon - 2001 - 228 pagine
...presents metaphor as one of many rhetorical devices whose function is to serve as an ornament to language. The perfection of diction is for it to be at once...of the ordinary words for things, but it is mean. . . . On the other hand, the diction 'becomes distinguished and non-prosaic by the use of unfamiliar... | |
 | Cynthia Wall - 2006 - 331 pagine
...becomes central, both in classical and in later Western traditions. Aristotle declares: The excellence of diction is for it to be at once clear and not mean....of the ordinary words for things, but it is mean. . . . [D]iction becomes distinguished and non-prosaic by the use of unfamiliar terms, ie strange words,... | |
 | Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) - 1918 - 296 pagine
...ornamental, coined, lengthened, curtailed, and altered words. In Chapter 22 he says (Poet. 22.1458al8ff.): The perfection of Diction is for it to be at once...of the ordinary words for things, but it is mean. . . . On the other hand the Diction becomes distinguished and non-prosaic by the use of unfamiliar... | |
 | Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) - 1918 - 512 pagine
...ornamental, coined, lengthened, curtailed, and altered words. In Chapter 22 he says (Poet. 22.14;,8al8ff.): The perfection of Diction is for it to be at once...of the ordinary words for things, but it is mean. . . . On the other hand the Diction becomes distinguished and non-prosaic by the use of unfamiliar... | |
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