anacrisis

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A stage of the Ancient Greek judicial process in which all of the evidence is produced prior to the trial. historical
    — If the plaintiff failed to appear at the anacrisis, the suit, of course, fell to the 'ground; if the defendant made default, judgment passed against him.
  2. An interrogation that provokes its subject to make explicit his or her underlying assumptions and deeply held values.
    — Socrates is the archetypal high master of subtle, ironic anacrisis.
  3. A dialog or plot event that causes a character to reveal his or her beliefs and motivations.
    — As Bakhtin points out, the "classical Christian dialogic syncrises" (dyads) of the tempted and the tempter, the believer and the nonbeliever, the righteous and the sinner, the beggar and the rich man, etc., as well as the "corresponding anacrises" ("provocations through discourse or plot situation") are familiar to literature developed "within the orbit of menippea."

词形变化

anacrises plural
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