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Similar, if not identical with this figure is another,
which is much in vogue at the present time. For
I must now proceed to the discussion of a class of
figure which is of the commonest occurrence and
on which I think I shall be expected to make
some comment. It is one whereby we excite some
suspicion to indicate that our meaning is other than
our words would seem to imply; but our meaning
is not in this case contrary to that which we express,
as is the case in ironq, but rather a hidden meaning
which is left to the hearer to discover. As I have
already pointed out,1 modern rhetoricians practically
restrict the name of figure to this device, from the
use of which figured controversial themes derive
their name.
1 IX. i. 14.
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