Handbook of Classical Sanskrit Rhetoric /53

Introduction
 
egeg The Greeks are strong, and skillful to their strength.

Fierce to their skill, and to their fierceness valiant.
 

-- Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida

 
44. Polysyndeton: It is the opposite of asyndeton, and we find

here deliberate use of many conjunctions.
 
eg
 
eg Neither blindness nor gout, nor age, not penury, nor

domestic affliction, nor political dissapointment, nor abuse,
nor proscription, nor neglect had power to his sedate and

nor proscription, nor neglect had power to his sedate and
majestic patience.
 

 
45. Prolepsis: Rhetorically prolepsis is the anticipation of possible

objections in order to answer them in advance.
 
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eg That I
 
scientific war, chemical
 
eg That say is modern war, -- scientific war, -- chemical
and mechanic war, -- how much worse than the savage's poi-
soned arrow! And yet you will tell me, perhaps that any other
war than this is impossible now. I say is modern war,
and mechanic war, how much worse than the savaget may be so; the progress of
science cannot, perhaps, be better registered than by new
facilities of destruction. Yet hear, for a moment, what war was
in pagan and ignorant days : -- what war might yet be if we
could extinguish our science in darkness and join the hea-
then's poiractice to the Christian's creed. -
soned arrow! And yet you will tell me, perhaps that any other
war than this is impossible now. It may be so; the progress of
science cannot, perhaps, be better registered than by new
facilities of destruction. Yet hear, for a moment, what war was
in pagan and ignorant days — what war might yet be if we
could extinguish our science in dar- Ruskness and join the hea-
then's practice to the Christian's creed. - Ruskin
 
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46. Pun: Pun is the generic name for those figures which are

based on play upon words giving duplicity of sense under

unity of sound. Some of its varieties are recognised by the
following terms
 

following terms --
a)
 
Antanaclasis: It is repetition of a word in two different senses.
eg
eg Your argument is sound, nothing but sound.
 

b) Paronomasia: It is use of words alike in sound but different in
 

meaning.
 
eg
eg Must I be punished for every pun-I-shed?
 

c)
 
Syllepsis: It is use of a word understood differently in relation to two

or more other words which modifies or governs.
 
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47. Simile (Latin similis meaning like) It is an explicit statement

of comparison between two or more things of unlike nature.

Its corresponding figure in Sanskrit is called upamā.
 
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