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A Handbook of Classical 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 bhävika in Sanskrit.
 
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 The moment and the vessle passed. - Tennyson
 
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