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the reason for
this has already been mentioned, namely, that it involves too great a departure
from suitable language. Proper and appropriate words and metaphors are alone to
be employed in the style of prose; this is shown by the fact that no one employs
anything but these. For all use metaphors in conversation, as well as proper and
appropriate words; wherefore it is clear that, if a speaker manages well, there
will be some thing “foreign” about his speech, while
possibly the art may not be detected, and his meaning will be clear. And this,
as we have said, is the chief merit of rhetorical language.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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