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What is a hendiadyoin?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Its a style figure.

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I believe this is the same figure of speech perhaps better known to English speakers as hendiadys [hen-DEE-a-dis]. Loosely translated from the Greek it means 'one out of two'. It is also called "the figure of twins". Typically, hendiadys takes a noun-adjective combination like 'furious sound', and changes it into two nouns connected with a conjunction. Shakespeare says 'sound and fury' as a striking hendiadic form of the mundane sounding 'furious sound'.

See link to hendiadys for more. Included is a link to hendiadyoin, but that link has the poorest English I've ever seen on-line. It may be a page that was translated to English by way of an automated translator from what appears to be the original German. The translator needs some work.

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