However, before you can talk about vices or virtues (using either model), you need to be able to classify the figures themselves.
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Take the familiar notion of alliteration (starting consecutive or nearby words with the same consonant), which I develop in Ad Nauseam.
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I call the first, the coin model the second, the razor model. Virtuous rhetoric lies between the vicious extremes: plain language, on the one side, and various modes of excessive ornamentation, on the other.(Idea drawn from Peacham’s observations.) Fine linguistic feats are opposed by abominations, but they are both just obverse sides of the same tool.The birds chaunt melody on every bush, / The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun, / The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind / And make a checker'd shadow on the ground.Īnd left the limbs still quivering on the ground.Figures of speech are no less afflicted by this schism, although classifying them accordingly is as much a matter of taste, nuance, and circumstance, as any binary division of a continuous scale.įollowing The vices of style by William Poole (Chapter 13 in Renaissance Figures of Speech), there are essentially two ways to approach this dichotomy: 1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act II, Scene III, line 12:.( intransitive ) To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion to tremble to quake to shudder to shiver.Quiver ( third-person singular simple present quivers, present participle quivering, simple past and past participle quivered ) there was a little quiver fellow, and 'a would manage you his piece thus and 'a would about and about, and come you in and come you in.įrom Middle English quiveren, probably from the adjective. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Part II, Act III, Scene II, line 281:.Quiver ( comparative more quiver, superlative most quiver )
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“Köcher” (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbucher Vertrag, 2005).įrom Middle English cwiver, from Old English *cwifer Adjective
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Barnhart, ed., Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology, s.v. French: tremblement (fr), frisson (fr), frémissement (fr) (of a person, of a voice).Portuguese: aljava (pt) f, fáretra f, carcás m.