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TABLE IV
RHETORICAL FIGURES IN JOHN KIRKBY'S A NEW
ENGLISH GRAMMAR (1746)
I. Principal Figures
A. Natural Figures
1. Repetition of like sounds
or words
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.o
epizeuxis
ep analepsis
anaphora
epiphora or epistrophe
symploce
anadiplosis
epanodos
2. Similar in sense, but
with different words
a. synonymia
b. exergasia
3. Based on sense, not sound
"pure nature?
a. erotesis
b. ecphonesis
c. pusma
d. anacoenosis
e. aporia or diaporesis
f. aposiopesis
g. proposopeia
h. hypotyposis or diatyposis
1. aetiologia
i. synathroesmus or hirmos
k. periphrasis
1. epiphonema
m. apostrophe or parechesis
n. epitrope
4. Figures which show more
art
a. declarative
1. climax
2. parabole
3. paroemia
b. enlarging
1. hyperbole
2. auxesis
3. meiosis or tapeinosis
or litotes
4. epimone
5. epanorthosis
c. opposition
1. antimetabole
2. antitheton
3. enantiosis
4. synoeceriosis
5. polyptoton
6. paradistole
d. design on hearer
1. paraleipsis
2. prolepsis
3. inversion
4. aphorism or laconism
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