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... Allegory . Allusion . -Catachresis . - Antithesis LETTER XIII . Metonymy . - Synedoche . - Periphrasis . - Per- sonification . Apostrophe . - Hyperbole . - Irony 179 LETTER XIV . 200 General observations on Composition LETTER XV ...
... Allegory . Allusion . -Catachresis . - Antithesis LETTER XIII . Metonymy . - Synedoche . - Periphrasis . - Per- sonification . Apostrophe . - Hyperbole . - Irony 179 LETTER XIV . 200 General observations on Composition LETTER XV ...
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... description of the Storm in the first book ; the allegorical description of Fame , or rather of Rumour ; the Sack of Troy in the second book ; and almost the whole 1 of the Descent to the Infernal Regions in the sixth THE SUBLIME . 35.
... description of the Storm in the first book ; the allegorical description of Fame , or rather of Rumour ; the Sack of Troy in the second book ; and almost the whole 1 of the Descent to the Infernal Regions in the sixth THE SUBLIME . 35.
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... ALLEGORY . It is not easy to say under which head we should rank the following bold and animated figure : " The swarm of monks that arose from the Nile , overspread and darkened the face of the Christian world . " -GIBBON'S HIST . C. 20 ...
... ALLEGORY . It is not easy to say under which head we should rank the following bold and animated figure : " The swarm of monks that arose from the Nile , overspread and darkened the face of the Christian world . " -GIBBON'S HIST . C. 20 ...
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... . This author , indeed , from his strained me . taphors , and his inversion of language , is scarcely better understood than if he had writ . ten in Greek or Latin , : LETTER XII . Allegory . - Allusion .-- Catachresis . 164 METAPHORS .
... . This author , indeed , from his strained me . taphors , and his inversion of language , is scarcely better understood than if he had writ . ten in Greek or Latin , : LETTER XII . Allegory . - Allusion .-- Catachresis . 164 METAPHORS .
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... allegory is a metaphor protracted to some considerable length . " When several kindred metaphors , " Cicero observes , " succeed one another , they alter the form ... ALLEGORY . 165 LETTER XII Allegory Allusion -Catachresis -Antithesis.
... allegory is a metaphor protracted to some considerable length . " When several kindred metaphors , " Cicero observes , " succeed one another , they alter the form ... ALLEGORY . 165 LETTER XII Allegory Allusion -Catachresis -Antithesis.
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