〜のみか (not only... but also — literary escalation)
〜のみか Formality Level: Formal / Literary — literary prose, editorials, formal written analysis Classical Origin: のみか combines the classical limiting particle のみ ( nomi , "only/merely" — equivalent to modern だけ) with the classical interrogative/exclamative か. In classical Japanese, のみか expressed "not just X, but [even more surprisingly] Y" — a rhetorical escalation structure. The pattern appears in kanbun (classical Chinese) influenced writing and in Heian literary prose. Modern のみか...