Synchoresis (syn cho RE sis; G. "consent, agreement").
The speaker gives his questioner leave to judge him. So Falstaff, in the play-within-a-play in 1 Henry IV, says to his tavern audience, "And here I stand: judge, my masters" (II, iv).
A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms, Second Edition, Richard A. Lanham, 1991
The speaker gives his questioner leave to judge him. So Falstaff, in the play-within-a-play in 1 Henry IV, says to his tavern audience, "And here I stand: judge, my masters" (II, iv).
A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms, Second Edition, Richard A. Lanham, 1991
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