Literary notes about Concession (AI summary)
In literature, the word "concession" is employed in a range of ways, from a structural grammatical element to a narrative device that underscores conflict and compromise. It is used to introduce subordinate clauses that acknowledge an opposing fact or circumstance while still advancing an argument, thereby adding emotional or logical nuance to a sentence ([1], [2], [3]). At the same time, authors incorporate concession to mark moments of reluctant admission or strategic yield from a character, as seen in dialogues where a character's softening stance or reluctant acceptance is noted ([4], [5], [6]). In historical and descriptive passages, the term even takes on a technical meaning, indicating defined boundaries or divisions in land, illustrating how a term can carry both a literal and a figurative weight in a narrative ([7], [8], [9]). This blending of grammatical function and thematic depth makes "concession" a versatile tool in the writer’s repertoire ([10], [11], [12]).
- Illustrate clauses of place, time, cause, and concession, by constructing twenty sentences, five for each.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge - (2.) quamquam , although , introduces the indicative in the concession of a definite fact.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane - The subjunctive is used after though , although , to express an admission or concession not as a fact but as a supposition.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge - Am I responsible for putting back the pins?” “Certainly not.” Betteredge made a note of that concession, on the spot.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins - I made another concession, and Betteredge made another note.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins - At the same time—’ ‘You are very good, sir,’ I murmured, anticipating a concession.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens - The concessions are one hundred chains deep, and one chain between each concession, to the extent of twelve miles."
— from Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding - At the point where it passes the road marking the northern limit of the third concession from the bay, it swerves seven degrees to the eastward.
— from Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding - Also, 300 acres being the west half of lot No. 31, and the whole of lot 32 in the second concession of Markham.
— from Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding - For even that very concession which Cicero himself makes is enough to refute him in this argument.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine - This may be conceded, but the concession hardly furnishes an analogy.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain - It is really a degrading concession to a low form of realism.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde
