“
[34]
Other effects
may be obtained by the graduation or contrast of
clauses, by the elegant inversion of words, by
[p. 369]
arguments drawn from opposites, asyndeton, paraleipsis,
correction, exclamation, meiosis, the employment of
a word in different cases, moods and tenses, the
correspondence of subsequent particulars with others
previously mentioned, the addition of a reason for
what is advanced, the assignment of a reason for each
distinct statement;”
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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