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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 12:24:11 EST
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- From: Bill Merrill <ST401601@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Figures of Speech and Their Names
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- >I am posting this in the hopes that some erudite net.people can help
- >construct a fuller list, and I am including only a few of the known
- >figure-of-speech names in this posting because it is possible that
- >someone might point me to an existing list,
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- I'm not too erudite, Ralph, but there is a good list of rhetorical
- and grammatical figures from anaccoluthon to zeugma in _Greek Grammar_
- by H.W. Smyth, Cambridge, 1956.
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- Bill
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