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Therefore the substitution of one
word for another is placed among tropes, as for
example in the case of metaphor, metonymy, antonomasia, metalepsis, synecdochè, catachresis, allegory1 and,
as a rule, hyperbole, which may, of course, be concerned either with words or things. Onomatopoea is
the creation of a word and therefore involves substitution for the words which we should use but
for such creation.
1 See VIII. vi.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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