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Further the resemblance between the two is so close that it is not easy
to distinguish between them. For although certain
kinds differ, while retaining a general resemblance
(since both involve a departure from the simple and
straightforward method of expression coupled with
a certain rhetorical excellence), on the other hand
some are distinguished by the narrowest possible
dividing line: for example, while irony belongs to
figures of thought just as much as to tropes,1 periphrasis,
hyperbaton and onomatopoea2 have been ranked by
distinguished authors as figures of speech rather than
tropes.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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