RHETORICAL FIGURES.

EXAMPLES-" A Scotch mist becomes a shower; and a shower, a
storm  nd a setorm, a  tempest; and a tempest, thuder and lightning;
andthndr and lightning, heaveniquake and earthquake.. ..Then
virtue became silent, heartsick, pined away, and Wied."

Allusion
word or
dent or

p

is that use of language whereby in a
words we recall some interesting ici-
condition by resemblance or contrast.
- " Give them the Amazon In South America and we'll
-ssisasAppi In the United States."
the signing of the Declaration of Inde-
i, Hancock remarked to his fellow
lat they must all hang together. "Yes,"
iklin " Ior we shall all hang 8eparately. "
lusion in this case turns to a pun, which
upon words.
xAz-"And the Doctor told the Sextou
And the Sexton toled the bell."
[tinued allusion and resemblance in

Apostrophe like the excla
turning away, in the fulln
dress some other person (
address the absent or dead
and the inanimate as if li,
This figure of speech us
degree of excitement.
Ex"~~PLEs&- 11 gentle sleep,

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