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There is a third class of figures which attracts the
ear of the audience and excites their attention by
some resemblance, equality or contrast of words.
To this class belongs paronomasia, which we call
adnominatio. This may be effected in different ways.
It may depend on the resemblance of one word to
another which has preceded, although the words are
in different cases. Take the following passage from
Domitius Afer's defence of Cloatilla: Mulier omnium
rerum imiperita, in omnnibus rebus infelix.1
1 “A woman unskilled in everything and in everything unhappy.”
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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