Rhetorical Glossary ( Mike Green)
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Onomatopoeia use of words to imitate natural sounds; accommodation of sound to sense. At tuba terribili sonitu taratantara dixit. Ennius |
Oxymoron apparent paradox achieved by the juxtaposition of words which seem to contradict one another. Festina lente. I must be cruel only to be kind. Shakespeare, Hamlet |