To this some give the name of exclamation,Gape now, wide earth.
Unknown.
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The figures best adapted for intensifying emotion
consist chiefly in simulation. For we may feign
that we are angry, glad, afraid, filled with wonder,
grief or indignation, or that we wish something, and
so on. Hence we get passages like the following:
“I am free, I breathe again,”1 or, “It is well,” or,
“What madness is this?”2 or, “Alas! for these
degenerate days!”3 or, “Woe is me; for though all
my tears are shed my grief still clings to me deep-rooted in my heart,”4 or,
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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