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A Handbook of Classical Sanskrit Rhetoric
 
17. Ellipsis: It is deliberate omission of word or words (readily

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.
 
-
 
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
:
- Strength match'd with strength, and power confronted
power. S
hakespeare, King John
 

 
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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