04.10. Figures Involving Change

FIGURES INVOLVING CHANGE

WE now come to the third and last great division of figures of language, viz., change, i.e., where the figure consists of a change affecting the meaning, use, arrangement, and order, of words, phrases, and sentences: also changes affecting the application of words.

Under this division come all the figures of change as to both Syntax and Rhetoric. The figures involving change we have divided as follows:- I.Affecting the Meaning of Words. II.Affecting the Arrangement and Order of Words.

1.    Separate words.

2.    Sentences and phrases.

    III.    Affecting the Application of Words.

1.    As to Sense.

2.    As to Persons.

3.    As to Subject-matter.

4.    As to Feeling.

5.    As to Argumentation.