The topic, as good as a smart diagnosis of language, replete with lots of word play, quick rebuttal in stichomythia, as good as both comic as good as critical diagnosis of love, remind us of alternative early plays of a Bard identical to Love's Labor's Lost as good as Romeo as good as Midsummer Night's Dream. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference
Where is mr. aRye, master of repartee, stichomythia, and the witty rejoinder?. From Wordnik.com. [Naked woman alert] Reference
At times it is almost literally like stichomythia, every sentence the subject of a smart retort invariably negative from the interior textual demolition team. From Wordnik.com. [Thursday ...] Reference
The author was well acquainted with classical drama, as may be seen in his use of stichomythia, amongst other things, and possibly in his preference for a Grecian story. From Wordnik.com. [The Growth of English Drama] Reference
When the lovers are engaging in one-line exchanges (or stichomythia, as it is called), they sometimes use rhymed couplets, as when Helena and Hermia are comparing notes on how they should respond to Demetrius's unwelcome paying of attention to Hermia and his spurning of Helena: hermia: I frown upon him, yet he loves me still. helena: Oh, that your frowns would teach my smiles such skill! hermia: I give him curses, yet he gives me love. helena: Oh, that my prayers could such affection move!. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
"Apollo," I said, "we are starting to talk in stichomythia. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
One of these is "Nina, an established director at Princeton's Theater Intime," who informs Kirn: "You're fond of stichomythia. From Wordnik.com. [Anis Shivani: Does the Ivy League Turn You Into a Moron? Walter Kirn Critiques Princeton in "Lost in the Meritocracy"] Reference
Scanlon is fond of camping out around a simple riff while Smith does all the adventuring and exploring, his verbal exclamations darting out from between jagged guitar interjections in a sonic stichomythia on rambling narratives like "C 'n' C/S. From Wordnik.com. [The Fall] Reference
3) the epic fragments included in the stichomythia of the. From Wordnik.com. [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference
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