The rhetorical point of interest is that that's hendiadys. From Wordnik.com. ["When a family is burning to death in front of your eyes, rules should go out of the window – especially with kids. Everybody wanted to try and help."] Reference
Don't tell Mothra Stewart about hendiadys, whatever you do. From Wordnik.com. [Ferule & Fescue] Reference
I'd like to claim that I use hendiadys consciously and of course evocatively!. From Wordnik.com. [Ferule & Fescue] Reference
= A hendiadys for 'Go drink all the mind-purging hellebore that grows in Anticyra'. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference
= This line is a type of hendiadys, the first half of the line being redefined by the second. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference
The process of editing my dissertation has become one long performance of getting rid of unnecessary hendiadys. From Wordnik.com. [Ferule & Fescue] Reference
Literally "one from two," hendiadys refers to a pair of words linked by "and" that expresses a single meaning neither word alone conveys. From Wordnik.com. [Ferule & Fescue] Reference
Three appendixes list instances of hendiadys in Hamlet, tabulate its incidence in all the plays, and discuss some misleading definitions in the OED. From Wordnik.com. [Ferule & Fescue] Reference
In all his plays Shakespeare uses the Vergilian figure hendiadys some three hundred times, most frequently in his middle plays and most of all in Hamlet. From Wordnik.com. [Ferule & Fescue] Reference
Rare in English speech or other English poetry, hendiadys joins nouns, or sometimes adjectives, in a false or specious union e.g., "sound and fury" for "furious sound". From Wordnik.com. [Ferule & Fescue] Reference
And finally: I just noticed that one of the pairs in the sample passage I gave is actually conjoined with an "or," which I guess means it isn't properly an example of hendiadys after all. From Wordnik.com. [Ferule & Fescue] Reference
In English Version "heap" and "sorrow" may be taken together by hendiadys. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
His confusion over hendiadys and its "normal usage" is only one illustration. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1] Reference
Furthermore, Mr.McC. 's reference to "the definition of hendiadys given earlier" is odd. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1] Reference
We have here more than what a hendiadys ( "the pain of thy conception") allows, for (cf. K.W.). From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
The definition in the Oxford English Dictionary indicates that a typical form of hendiadys is the. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 3] Reference
Koenig, make a double hendiadys, thus, "for signs, as well for seasons as also for days and also years.". From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
Not even Farrar, in his Greek Syntax, or some greater man, knew more examples of chiasmus, asyndeton, or hendiadys. From Wordnik.com. [The Private Life of Henry Maitland]
The root hen ` one 'is found in hendiadys, a rhetorical figure labeling expressions like nice and warm, instead of "nicely warm.". From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVII No 4] Reference
The construction involving and, which was a central feature of the definition of hendiadys given earlier, is nowhere to be found in the illustration. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1] Reference
As Mr.McC. has discovered, hendiadys is treated twice in Mr. Espy's book: on p. 178 in an excerpt from the Rev. Peacham's 1577 book, and on p. 133 in a comment on contemporary usage. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1] Reference
At first recitation The Roman flunked Stover on the review, on the gerund and gerundive, on the use of hendiadys -- a most unfair exhibition of persecution -- on several supines, and requested him to remain after class. From Wordnik.com. [The Varmint] Reference
But though hendiadys is a common enough figure, we feel that nothing definitely indicates its use here; and also we notice that such translations push the independent meaning of the word "signs" too much into the background. From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
Later, I noticed that hendiadys was defined on page 133 as "the expression of an idea by two words connected by and, when normal usage would be to subordinate one to the other," but on page 178, one of the examples given of hendiadys was. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1] Reference
Diplophrasis My letter in the February 1976 VERBATIM, listing phrases in our language in which synonyms are joined by and (aches and pains, alas and alack, bits and pieces) and other examples of hendiadys and merism elicited many additions from readers. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 4] Reference
But since I don't tend to verbal excess or floweriness in other ways, I think my use of hendiadys is at least partly a process of refinement: of figuring out whatever it is that I really mean and how to say it. From Wordnik.com. [Ferule & Fescue] Reference
A modern example of hendiadys. From Wordnik.com. [Finally, a post about ACORN.] Reference
(revised edition, 1965) makes clear, one constituent of an hendiadys is subordinate to the other. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 3] Reference
Did your hendiadys?. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 2] Reference
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