Tapinosis
Tapinosis demeans or insults a subject often with a contemptuous tone. “The pox of such antic, lisping, affecting phantasims, these new tuners of accent!” Romeo and Juliet 2.4.29 Mercutio debases Tybalt and other young men who use pretentious ways of speaking. See meiosis, which demeans something by making it seem smaller than it is.
Quotes including the Figure of Speech Tapinosis
Alas, poor Romeo, he is already dead
Read the QuoteMercutio
Alas, poor Romeo, he is already dead,
stabbed with a white wench’s black eye, run
through the ear with a love-song, the very pin of his
heart cleft with the blind bow-boy’s butt shaft. And
is he a man to encounter Tybalt?
O, he’s the courageous captain of compliments.
He fights as you sing prick-song,
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