Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Synonymia: or, in other words / Sylvia Adamson
  • Compar or parison: measure for measure / Russ McDonald
  • Periodos: squaring the circle / Janel Mueller
  • Puns: serious wordplay / Sophie Read
  • Prosopopoeia: the speaking figure / Gavin Alexander
  • Ekphrasis: painting in words / Claire Preston
  • Hysteron proteron: or the preposterous / Patricia Parker
  • Paradiastole: redescribing the vices as virtues / Quentin Skinner
  • Syncrisis: the figure of contestation / Ian Donaldson
  • Testimony: the artless proof / R.W. Serjeantson
  • Hyperbole: exceeding similitude / Katrin Ettenhuber
  • Metalepsis: the boundaries of metaphor / Brian Cummings
  • The vices of style / William Poole.