Who'd have thought I wouldhave learned quite this much from listening to the ends of my sister's and [livejournal.com profile] doctor_nine's afterschool Latin class sessions after my Student Action meetings were over? Especially in relation to terms useful in a Jewish Liturgy class. But "tricolon" and most especially "chiasmus" are awfully useful there, and while I know I met the latter term in AP English as well, I met it first and far more thoroughly while working on homework and listening in on exerpts about Roman boats, small birds, jealousy, and other things related to Catulus. If only my Latin teacher (that same teacher) could see me now...

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Speaking of Latin and poetic devices: I think I ran into a hendiadys the other day, but, to borrow Winston Churchill's line about man's reactions to the truth, but I picked myself up and hurried off as if nothing ever happened.

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Aww, a good hendiadys ought to be treasured and made to play interpretive tricks for you...

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On the other hand, a bad hendiadys ought to be used as article fodder. Heck, if Phyllis Trible can do it (or was it Phylis Bird? Why Must two prominent scholars in a small field- feminist biblical scholarship- have the same first names? I think it was Bird, honestly, but I'm not sure), why shouldn't we?
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