Question

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 (15[1])of this concept. The Hegelian term “infinite, absolute negativity” is appropriated to (15[1])define this concept in a master’s thesis that analyzes the depiction of its subject in Aristophanes’ Clouds. That book by Soren Kierkegaard analyzes this concept (10[1])“with continual reference (10[1])to Socrates.” (10[1])For 10 points, name this subversive (10[1])rhetorical device, the use of language 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
Jaimie Carlsonmeet the new weird, same as the old weirdnats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft5815
Michal GerasimiukUG Championship Players (and Mazin)Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry7015
Rahul KeyalWatching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Againnats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft9510
Halle Friedmanmeet the new weird, same as the old weirdUG Championship Players (and Mazin)9810
Daniel MaOlmo (Bonus) BagelryColumbia B10010
Arthur Delot-VilainWatching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People AgainColumbia B10610

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