Readers of this blog will know that I’m fascinated by rhetorical figures, the figures of speech. I’ve written comments and even entire posts on tricolon, anaphora, antithesis, congeries, chiasmus, anadiplosis, polyptoton, epimone, palilogia, and several more. In the old days, from the time of the ancient Greeks down to the nineteenth century, the figures of … Continue reading Naming a Figure of Speech