pungency and point.

     But the “disjointed sentences” and endless alliterations 
such as Augustine used for his popular “rhymed sermons” are 
the necessary norm of oral prose and poetry alike. (Witness the 
Elizabethan Euphues .) It is easy to gauge the degree of 
acceptance of print culture in any time or country by its effect 
in eliminating pun, point, alliteration, and aphorism from 
literature. Thus, the Latin countries even today retain maxims, 
sententiae,  and aphorism at a respectable level. And the 
symboliste  revival of oral culture not only began first in Latin 
countries but relied much on “disjointed sentences” and 
aphorism. Seneca and Quintilian, like Lorca and Picasso, were 
Spaniards for whom auditory modes were of great authority. 
Bonner (p. 71) is puzzled by the favorable light in which 
Quintilian sets the Euphuistic devices of Latin eloquence in