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A figurative construction, changing or inverting the natural order of words or clauses; as, "echoed the hills" for "the hills echoed."
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A figure by which the ordinary course of thought is inverted in expression, and the last put first; -- called also hysteron proteron.
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A figure consisting of a transference of attributes from their proper subjects to other. Thus Virgil says, "dare classibus austros," to give the winds to the fleets, instead of dare classibus austris, to give the fleets to the winds.
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A figure in which several things are mentioned that seem to make against the argument, or in favor of the opposite side, each of them being refuted in order.
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A figure in which the idea is expressed by two nouns connected by and, instead of by a noun and limiting adjective; as, we drink from cups and gold, for golden cups.
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A figure in which the natural order of sense is reversed; hysterology; as, valet atque vivit, "he is well and lives."
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A figure in which the several parts of a sentence end with the same case, or inflection generally.
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A figure of speech by which one form of a noun, verb, or pronoun, and the like, is used for another, as in the sentence: "What is life to such as me?"
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A figure of speech in which the expression is an evident exaggeration of the meaning intended to be conveyed, or by which things are represented as much greater or less, better or worse, than they really are; a statement exaggerated fancifully, through excitement, or for effect.
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