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What I have said above applies perhaps with even
greater force to synecdocheè. For while metaphor is
designed to move the feelings, give special distinction to things and place them vividly before
the eye, synecdocheè has the power to give variety to
our language by making us realise many things
from one, the whole from a part, the genus from a
species, things which follow from things which have
preceded; or, on the other hand, the whole procedure may be reversed. It may, however, be more
freely employed by poets than by orators.
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