paraprosdokian

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part. rhetoric
    — This style of comic poetry, a kind of parody of the Ballad, a series of quatrains generally leading up to a paraprosdokian or surprise in the fourth line, was initiated by [Oliver] Goldsmith in this merry tale.

词形变化

paraprosdokians plural

词源

From Ancient Greek παρά (pará, “against”) + προσδοκία (prosdokía, “expectation”).
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