Sixe points set downe by our learned forefathers for
a generall
rule or regiment of all good vtterance,
be it by mouth or by
writing.
129
How the Greekes first and afterwardes the Latines
inuented
new names for euery figure, which this
Author is also enforced
to do in his vulgar arte.
130
A diuision of figures and how they serue in exornation of language. 131
Of Auricular figures apperteyning to single words
and working by
their diuers sounds and audible tunes,
alteration to the eare
onely and not to the minde.
134
Of Auricular figures perteyning to clawses of speech,
and by
them working no little alteration to the
eare. 135
Of Auricular figures working by disorder. 140
Of Auricular figures working by surplusage. 141
Of Auricular figures working by exchange. 142
Of Auricular figures that serue to make the meetre
tuneable and
melodious, but not by defect nor surplusage,
disorder nor exchange. 145
The names of your figures Auricular.
Eclipsis, or the figure of default.
136
Zeugma, or the single supply.
136
Prozeugma, or the ringleader.
137
Mezozeugma, or the middlemarcher.
137
Hypozeugma, or the rerewarder.
137
Sillepsis, or the double supply.
137
Hypozeuxis, or the substitute.
138
Aposiopesis, or the figure of silence, otherwise
called the figure of interruption.
139
Prolepsis, or the propounder.
139
Hiperbaton, or the trespasser.
140
Parenthesis, or the insertour.
140
Histeron proteron, or the preposterous.
141
Enallage, or figure of exchange.
142
Hipallage, or the changeling.
143
Omoioteleton, or the figure of likeloose.
144
Patimion, or figure of like letter.
145
Asindeton, or figure of lose language.
145
Polisindeton, or the coople clause.
146
Irmus, or the long lose.
146
Epitheton, or the qualifier.
147
Endiades, or the figure of twinnes.
147