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This form of amplification is near akin
to emphasis: but emphasis derives its effect from
the actual words, while in this case the effect is
produced by inference from the facts, and is consequently far more impressive, inasmuch as facts are
more impressive than words.
[p. 279]
Accumulation of words and sentences identical in
meaning may also be regarded under the head of
amplification. For although the climax is not in
this case reached by a series of steps, it is none the
less attained by the piling up of words. Take the
following example:1
1 Pro Lig. iii. 9.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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