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None of these can be called
figures. For a figure does not necessarily involve
any alteration either of the order or the strict sense
of words. As regards irony, I shall show elsewhere1
how in some of its forms it is a trope, in others a
figure. For I admit that the name is common to
both and am aware of the complicated and minute
discussions to which it has given rise. They, however, have no bearing on my present task. For it
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makes no difference by which name either is called, so
long as its stylistic value is apparent, since the meaning of things is not altered by a change of name.
For just as men remain the same,
1 IX. ii. 44.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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