Daily Archives: March 11, 2010

Adynaton

Adynaton (a-dyn’-a-ton): A declaration of impossibility, usually in terms of an exaggerated comparison. Sometimes, the expression of the impossibility of expression.

You have as much of a chance of winning the lottery as a chicken does of climbing Mt. Everest!

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Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu)