Handbook of Classical Sanskrit Rhetoric /54

Xeg Higher and higher / From the earth thou springest
LII
 
A Handbooik of Classicale a cloud of fire. -- Sanskrit Rhetoric
 
eg Higher and higher / From the earth thou springest
Like a cloud of fire. - Shelley
 

 
48. Synecdoche: The figure literally means understanding of

one thing for another, such as -- a part for the whole, the

whole for a part, a species for the genus, the genus for a

species, an individual for a class, the abstract for the con-

crete, the concrete for the abstract.
 
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eg. Dust thou (ie the body) art, to dust returnest.

Silver and gold I have none.
 

 
49. Vision: It draws an imaginary picture represented so vividly

that it appreas, as it were, real. It has close similarity with the

figure bhäāvika in Sanskrit.
 
eg
 
eg Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation

rousing herself like a strong man after sleep shaking her

invincible locks. -- Milton
 

 
50. Zeugma : It is zeugma when a single verb connects two nouns

though another separate verb should be there.
 
eg
 
eg The moment and the vessle passed. -- Tennyson
 
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