“
[35]
again we may employ concession
and another form of hesitation, introduction of the
unexpected, distinction by heads, another form of correction, local distribution, rapid succession of clauses,
interruption of clauses, imagery, answering our own
questions, immutation,1 the appropriate distinction of
one proposition from another, effective arrangement,
reference, digression and circumscription.”
1 Perhaps=nmetonymy.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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