| A basic strategy in the manipulation of discourse for
rhetorical purposes, along with addition, transposition,
and substitution.
Figures of Subtraction
- anesis
- meiosis
If not strictly "subtraction," meiosis is a kind of semantic reduction:
the reference to something with a name disproportionately lesser than
its nature.
- charientismus
- tapinosis
- syncope
Cutting letters or syllables from the middle of a word
- synaloepha
Omitting one of two vowels which occur together at the end of one word
and the beginning of another.
- restrictio
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