•  
  •  
 

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Authors

Keywords

Gail Call, Book of Mormon, antenantiosis, negated opposis, E. W. Bullinger

Abstract

Gail Call, one of our enthusiastic F.A.R.M.S. readers, has pointed out the presence in the Book of Mormon of an interesting figure of speech called antenantiosis. In this figure of speech, an expression is stated in terms of its negated opposite. The result is to express the positive in a very high degree, or as the biblical scholar E.W. Bullinger puts it, "We thus emphasize that which we seem to lessen" (Figures of Speech Used in the Bible [Baker Book House: Grand Rapids, 1989], pp. 159-64).

Download

Share

COinS