Figure Name | anabasis |
Source | Bullinger (1898) ("anabasis; or, gradual ascent") |
Earliest Source | None |
Synonyms | gradual ascent, incrementum, auxesis, anagoge |
Etymology | Gr. ana "up" and bainein "to go" from basis "a stepping" or "a step" |
Type | None |
Linguistic Domain | |
Definition |
1. An Increase of Sense in successive Sentences... [see Etymology] So that Anabasis means "a going up" or "ascent." The FIgure is so called when a writing, speech, or discourse, ascends up step by step, each with an increase of emphasis or sense... When this increase or ascent is from weaker to stronger expression, and is confined to words, it is called Climax. [N.B.-When the sense or graduation is downward instead of upward, it is called Catabasis...]... When the increase is not a mere increase of vehemence, or of evil, but leads up from things inferior to things superior; from things terrestrial to things celestial; from things mundane to things spiritual; the figure is called ANAGOGE... (Bullinger, 455) |
Example |
1. Ps. 1:1.- "Blessed is the man |
Kind Of | Series Parallelism |
Part Of | |
Related Figures | climax, parallelism |
Notes | |
Confidence | Unconfident |
Last Editor | Ioanna Malton |
Confidence | Unconfident |
Editorial Notes | |
Reviewed | No |