Syntheton (sin’-the-ton): When by convention two words are joined by a conjunction for emphasis.
Life and death
Hope and fear
Winning and losing
Words have their opposites creating trajectories from one to the other, from the other to the other in dialectical repetitions, in circles unbroken by time, in bent lines.
Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu).
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