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Definition of Stichomythic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stichomythic
Literary usage of Stichomythic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studies in English Drama: First Series by Allison Gaw (1917)
"More significant than these, however, is the stichomythic couplet debate, ...
Of these seven cases one is the stichomythic debate just referred to; ..."
2. Studies in Stichomythia by John Leonard Hancock (1917)
"There are also a few other irregular passages containing stichomythic lines, at
276 ff., 523 ff., and 1435 ff., and the play closes with ..."
3. Studies in Stichomythia by John Leonard Hancock (1917)
"There are also a few other irregular passages containing stichomythic lines, at
276 ff., 523 ff., and 1435 ^-> and the play closes with ..."
4. Schiller's Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller (1898)
"... there is an extraordinary proportion of pithy sayings in Tell, found especially
in the passages in stichomythic dialogue (see note to 1. 136). ..."
5. A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day by George Saintsbury (1908)
"whether in prose or in some sort of verse, is devoted to that stichomythic bandying
of speech, generally with inordinate ^vord-play, which is the most ..."
6. The Growth of English Drama by Arnold Wynne (1914)
"By a sort of stichomythic alternation each for a time is supposed to carry on
his speech regardless of the other, so that to follow either connectedly the ..."
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