An antanagoge (
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...
''ἀνταναγωγή'', a leading or bringing up), is a
figure
Figure may refer to:
General
*A shape, drawing, depiction, or geometric configuration
*Figure (wood), wood appearance
*Figure (music), distinguished from musical motif
* Noise figure, in telecommunication
* Dance figure, an elementary dance patt ...
in
rhetoric
Rhetoric is the art of persuasion. It is one of the three ancient arts of discourse ( trivium) along with grammar and logic/ dialectic. As an academic discipline within the humanities, rhetoric aims to study the techniques that speakers or w ...
, in which, not being able to answer the accusation of an adversary, a person instead makes a counter-allegation or counteracting an opponent's proposal with an opposing
proposition
A proposition is a statement that can be either true or false. It is a central concept in the philosophy of language, semantics, logic, and related fields. Propositions are the object s denoted by declarative sentences; for example, "The sky ...
in one's speech or writing.
Antanagoge places a negative point next to and/or between a positive point, attempting to redirect attention away from the negative point.
It may also refer to placing a positive outlook on a situation that has a negative connotation, such as in the following examples:
Examples of word usage
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Literary examples
:"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade is a proverbial phrase used to encourage optimism and a positive can-do attitude in the face of adversity or misfortune. Lemons suggest sourness or difficulty in life; making lemonade is turning them into ...
."
:"I got in a car accident, but I was planning on getting a new car anyway."
:"Many are the pains and perils to be passed,
: But great is the gain and glory at the last."
See also
* Paradiastole
References
Figures of speech
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