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Again, a question may involve comparison,
as, for instance, “Which of the two then could more
easily assign a reason for his opinion?”1 There are
other forms of question as well, some concise, some
developed at greater length, some dealing with one
thing only, others with several.
Anticipation, or, as the Greeks call it, πρόληψις,
whereby we forestall objections, is of extraordinary
value in pleading; it is frequently employed in all
parts of a speech, but is especially useful in the
exordium.
1 pro Cluent. xxxviii. 106.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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