Beautifying, enforcing and enlarging language through comparison. Bede identifies three figures that peform this: icon, parabola, and paradigma. Related Figures
Related Figures
Sources: Bede 618; Putt. (1589) 247 ("omiosis," "resemblance"); Day 1599 99 ("omiosis")
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Gideon O. Burton, Brigham Young University Please cite "Silva Rhetoricae" (rhetoric.byu.edu)