| Figure Name | parembole |
| Source | Silva Rhetoricae (http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Silva.htm); Bullinger (1898) ("parembola; or, insertion") |
| Earliest Source | None |
| Synonyms | insertion, epembole, paremptsis |
| Etymology | Par-em'-bol-ee' from Gr. para "beside," en "in" and bolee "a throwing" or "casting" |
| Type | Scheme |
| Linguistic Domain |
Syntactic |
| Definition |
1. A figure of interruption closely related to parenthesis. Parembole occurs when the interrupting matter has a connection to the sentence subject, whereas the interrupting material of parenthesis need have no such connection. (Silva Rhetoricae) 2. Parenthetic Independent Addition... Hence, a Parembole is an insertion beside, between, or among others; and the name is used when the sentence interposed is independent and complete in itself; and would make complete sense if it were separated from the sentence which it divides. (Bullinger, 489) |
| Example |
2. Rom. 8:2-15 is a long Parembole setting forth the further relation between flesh and spirit: i.e., the Old man and the New man, the Old nature and the New divine and spiritual nature, the pneuma, or pneuma-Christou) which is given to all who are in Christ. Consequently the "s" in spirit should be a small "s," and not a capital letter, in all these verses: the Holy Spirit Himself not being mentioned, or referred to, as a Person until verse 16. (Bullinger, 489) |
| Kind Of | Addition |
| Part Of | |
| Related Figures | parenthesis, anacoluthon, correctio, epanorthosis |
| Notes | 'Type of' not applicable. |
| Confidence | Unconfident |
| Last Editor | Ioanna Malton |
| Confidence | Unconfident |
| Editorial Notes | |
| Reviewed | No |