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A Handbook of Classical Sanskrit Rhetoric
implied) that would complete or clarify the construction.
eg
eg Rape is the sexual sin of the mob, adultery of the bour-
geoise, and incest of the aristocracy.
18. Epigram: (Greek epi upon, gramma a writing) In Greek and
Latin it means inscription, and as a figurative use in English
any witty, ingenious or pointed saying is an epigram. In
Sanskrit anthologies we come across hundreds of such
expressions.
eg
eg Speech was given to man to conceal his thoughts.
Voltaire
There is pleasure in poetic pain. -- Cowper
The bookful blockhead ignorantly read. -- Pope
We think our fathers fool, so wise we grow,
Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think so.
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Voltaire
19. Epistrophe: It is repetition of the same word or group of words at
the ends of successive clauses.
eg
eg To the good Americans many subjects are sacred : Sex is
sacred, women are sacred, business is sacred, America is
sacred, Mason lodges and college clubs are sacred.
George Santayana, Character and opinion in the United states
20. Epanalepsis: It is a variety of repetition at the end of a clause
of the word that occured at the beginning of the clause.
eg Blood hath bought blood, and blows have answer'd blows
: Strength match'd with strength, and power confronted
power. Shake -
eg Blood hath bought blood, and blows have answer'd blows
:
power. S
21. Erotesis or Interrogation : It is a rhetorical question that implies a
positive or negetive answer.
eg
eg If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we
not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong
us shall we not revenge? - Shakespeare
22. Euphemism : (Greek eu phomi meaning I speak well) It is the
substitution of a mild, indirect or vague exprssion for one
thought to be offensively harsh or blunt.
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