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But far the most ornamental effect is produced by the artistic admixture of simile, metaphor
and allegory, as in the following example:1 “What
strait, what tide-race, think you, is full of so many
conflicting motions or vexed by such a variety of
eddies, waves and fluctuations, as confuse our popular
elections with their wild ebb and flow? The passing
of one day, or the interval of a single night, will
often throw everything into confusion, and one little
breath of rumour will sometimes turn the whole
trend of opinion.”
1 Pro Mur. xvii. 35.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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