... figure of speech , 185 Correctio , 200 ; as transition , 174 Crassus , 203 Cumulus , 157 Declamation , 214 , points to be at- tended to , 214 ; faults in , 215 ; remedies for , 215 ; practice in , 215 Decorum , oratorical , as a means ...

... SPEECH . Readiness of speech . A speech or discourse pronounced on a special occa- sion . A declamatory speech made ... figure of speech in which a part of an object is put for the whole , or the whole for a part ; as , " He ...

... speech , " or could sharply distinguish a figure of speech from a figure of thought and from a trope . Yet Shakespeare who had small Latin and less Greek , knew . When Polonius says , " " Tis true ' tis pity , and pity ' tis ' tis ...

... Figure 4 , The Chest1 A side view of the chest is given in Figure 4. In figure A , the capacity as shown by the shaded lines is smaller than B. Figure A shows the chest when deflated . Note the position and shape of the diaphragm in each ...

... figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off sud- denly , as if unwilling or unable to state what was in his mind . Apostrophe . A figure of speech in which the absent is addressed as though present . Balanced sentence . A sentence ...

... figure of speech is called a " simile . " It definitely and explicitly points out a resemblance . If we make the comparison so indirect that the reader must infer the resemblance , we call such a figure of speech " metaphor . " For ...

... speech ; die Gabe der - the gift of speech . 2 ) tone of voice , voice , speech ; ( in literature ) die gebundene ... figure of speech , a rhetorical figure , trope , metaphor ; -blume , f . flower of rhetoric ; -buhne , f . V ...