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In one book, this concept is compared to the magnets that, in medieval legend, suspend Mohammed’s coffin between heaven and earth. Luce Irigaray analyzed Hegel’s description of women as the “eternal” version of this concept “of the community.” This concept is called a “permanent parabasis” in one of the Lyceum Fragments of Friedrich Schlegel, who theorized the (*) “Romantic” form of this concept. The Hegelian term “infinite, absolute negativity” is appropriated to define this concept in a master’s thesis that analyzes (10[1])the depiction of its subject in Aristophanes’ Clouds. That book by Soren Kierkegaard analyzes this concept “with continual reference to Socrates.” (10[2])For 10 points, name this subversive rhetorical device, the use of language (10[1])to mean the opposite of what it appears to say. ■END■

ANSWER: irony [or Eironeia; or Socratic irony; or Romantic irony]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Young Fenimore LeaveWhat is BH! And you are asking me? BHSUHutto Hippos7910
Amogh KulkarniCornell C++Rollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang10010
Joel MilesThe Enrique Trastamara Military Academy BHouston and friends10010
Jonathen SettleDr. Christopher Manners, MD - Samarra, IraqCornell B-11210

Summary

2023 BHSU @ Northwestern02/25/2023Y6100%0%0%82.33
2023 BHSU @ Maryland03/11/2023Y3100%0%33%98.00
2023 BHSU @ Berkeley03/18/2023Y3100%0%0%107.00
2023 BHSU @ Yale04/08/2023Y3100%0%0%97.67
2023 BHSU @ Yale04/08/2023Y3100%67%0%78.00
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo04/15/2023Y3100%0%67%118.00
2023 BHSU Online04/15/2023Y4100%0%0%97.75
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield04/15/2023Y2100%0%0%97.50