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Major Divisions

The following include the most encompassing categories rhetoricians have given to the figures. For other groupings, see the groupings index.


Figures of Diction / Figures of Thought
—Ad Herennium 4.12.18
—Mosellanus a2v

 

Figures of Thought / Figures of Speech or Style

 


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