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eg He perished on the scaffold (ie he was hanged).

 
23. Exclamation : It is an expression of surprise or strong emo-
tion or contemplation which produces a profound effect.
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tion or contemplation which produces a profound effect.
 
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What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How

infinite in faculties! In form and moving, how express and

admirable! In action, how like an angel! In apprehension,

how like a God! -- Shakespeare
 

 
24. Hendiadys or Brachylogia: It is a figure is which a complex idea

is expressed by two words connected by a copulative conjuction.
 
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To look with eyes and envy (ie with envious eyes).
 

 
25. Hypallage: It is a sort of transference of epithet. Here the

quality of an object is transferred to another through poetic

vision.
 
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A sleepless night passed, and anxious morning slowly
dawned.
 

dawned.
 
26. Hyperbaton or Inversion : Rhetorically it is the use, especially

for emphasis, of a word order other than the expected or the usual one.
eg

 
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Bird thou never wert.
 

Much have I travelled in the realms of gold. -- Keats
 

 
27. Hyperbole: (Greek hyper ballo meaning I throw beyond) It is an

obvious and intentional exaggeration, an extravagant statement not

to be taken literally. The corresponding figure in Sanskrit is

called atiśayokti.
 
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My left leg weighs three tons. It is emblamed in spices like

a mummy. I can't move. I have not moved for five thousand

years. I'm of the time of pharoah. -- Thomas Baily Aldrich
 

 
28. Innuendo: It is an oblique hint or indirect intimation about a

person or thing, especially of a derogatory nature. In

Sanskrit, such a figure is known as vyājanindā.
 
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'Sir' said an incautious person to Johnson, 'drinking

drives away care, and makes us forget whatever is disagree-

able. Would you not allow man to drink for that reason?'

'Yes', was the reply, 'if he sat next to you.'
 
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