Handbook of Classical Sanskrit Rhetoric /45

Introduction
 
For the benefit of the intelligent and inquisitive readers a brief

account of the figures of speech in English is submitted below:
 
eg
 

1. Allegory: (Greek allos other, agoreuo I speak). It is a device

giving detailed description of one thing under the image of

another.
 

eg Out of the head I sprung. Amazement seized
 

All the host of Heaven; back they recoiled afraid

At first and call me Sin, and for a sign

Portentious held me; but familiar grown
 

I pleased, and with attractive graces won

The most averse. -- Milton, Paradise Lost
 
The most averse.
 
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2. Allusion: It denotes a passing or casual reference to an inci-

dent of the past either directly or indirectly or by implica-

tion. In Sanskrit literature, mention of allusions from the

Vedic or the classical tradition is very common and popular

both in prose and poetry.
 
eg
eg Now we clap/Our hands, and cry Eureka, it is clear.
 

 
3. Alliteration : It is the commencement of two or more words

or a word group with the same letter or sound.
 
eg
eg Lying silent and sad in the afternoon shadows and sun-

shine.
 

 
4. Anadiplosis: It is repetition in the first part of a clause or sentence
of a prominent word from the latter part of the preceding clause or

of a prominent word from the latter part of the preceding clause or
sentence, usually with a change or extension of meaning.
 
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eg
eg Having power makes it (totalitarian leadership) isolated; iso-

lation breeds insecurity; insecurity breeds suspicion and fear;

suspicion and fear breed violence. - Zibigniew K Brzeninski,

The Permanent Purge, Politics in Soviet Totalitarianism
 
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5. Anaphora (also called epanaphora): It is repetition of word or

words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses or
 

sentences.
 
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