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Some writers have held that there is only one
kind of figure, although they differ as regards the
reasons which lead them to adopt this view. For
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some of them, on the ground that a change of words
causes a corresponding change in the sense, assert
that all figures are concerned with words, while others
hold that figures are concerned solely with the sense,
on the ground that words are adapted to things.
Both these views are obviously quibbling.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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