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... Catachresis . - Antithesis LETTER XIII . Metonymy . - Synedoche . - Periphrasis . - Per- sonification . Apostrophe . - Hyperbole . - Irony 179 LETTER XIV . 200 General observations on Composition LETTER XV . Didactic Composition ...
... Catachresis . - Antithesis LETTER XIII . Metonymy . - Synedoche . - Periphrasis . - Per- sonification . Apostrophe . - Hyperbole . - Irony 179 LETTER XIV . 200 General observations on Composition LETTER XV . Didactic Composition ...
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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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... Catachresis . Antithesis . MY DEAR JOHN , I HAVE already intimated that an allegory is a metaphor protracted to some considerable length . " When several kindred metaphors , " Cicero observes , " succeed one another , they alter the ...
... Catachresis . Antithesis . MY DEAR JOHN , I HAVE already intimated that an allegory is a metaphor protracted to some considerable length . " When several kindred metaphors , " Cicero observes , " succeed one another , they alter the ...
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... catachresis , which I hope I need not tell you means an abuse of words , is commonly no more than a violent or over- strained metaphor , as when we say of a person for whom we have little respect , " that he CATACHRESIS . 173.
... catachresis , which I hope I need not tell you means an abuse of words , is commonly no more than a violent or over- strained metaphor , as when we say of a person for whom we have little respect , " that he CATACHRESIS . 173.
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... catachresis ; but it was a very fine one . All these figures you will easily perceive are derived from the relation of resemblance ; and as metaphysicians have connected under one head the relations of resemblance and contra- riety , I ...
... catachresis ; but it was a very fine one . All these figures you will easily perceive are derived from the relation of resemblance ; and as metaphysicians have connected under one head the relations of resemblance and contra- riety , I ...
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