Accism
A Akzismus is a form of irony , in which a person indifference faking or pretending to reject something they actually want. The word comes from the Greek akkismós (“prudery”) and is a derivation of akkízesthai (“pretend ignorance”).
Examples
- the rejection of the grapes by the fox in Aesop's fable The fox and the grapes
- in Shakespeare's drama Julius Caesar , Mark Antony uses an accism when he emphasizes in his speech to the people how Caesar rejected the royal crown three times
See also
literature
- J. Dominik Harjung: Lexicon of the art of language. Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 9783406421594 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Accismus. In: Encyclopædia Britannica . Retrieved June 21, 2019 .