Diasyrmus
Diasyrmus (dy-uh-SUR-mus) is a type of simile that rejects a position by comparing it to something very stupid or ridiculous. “Here is your husband, like a mildewed ear | Blasting his wholesome brother.” Hamlet, 3.4.74
Quotes including the Figure of Speech Diasyrmus
What have I done, that thou dar’st wag thy tongue
Read the QuoteQueen
What have I done, that thou dar’st wag thy tongue
In noise so rude against me?
Hamlet
Such an act
That blurs the grace and blush of modesty,
Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose
From the fair forehead of an innocent love
And sets a blister there, makes marriage vows
As false as dicers’ oaths—O,
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Now they are clapper-clawing one another
Read the Quote Thersites
Now they are clapper-clawing one another.
I’ll go look on. That dissembling abominable varlet,
Diomed, has got that same scurvy doting foolish
young knave’s sleeve of Troy there in his helm.Diasyrmus
Nestor, and that same dog-fox,
Ulysses—is proved not worth a blackberry.
I would fain see them meet,
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