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In the second and special sense, in
which it is called a schema, it means a rational change
in meaning or language from the ordinary and simple
form, that is to say, a change analogous to that
involved by sitting, lying down on something or
looking back. Consequently when a student tends
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to continuous or at any rate excessive use of the
same cases, tenses, rhythms or even feet, we are in
the habit of instructing him to vary his figures with
a view to the avoidance of monotony.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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