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What Is Catachresis in Rhetoric?
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Quintilian on Metaphor and Catachresis
"The first thing that strikes one in the history of the terms 'metaphor' and 'catachresis' is the apparently unnecessary confusion of the two since the difference between them was clearly defined as early as Quintilian's discussion of catachresis in the Institu
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- Quintilian on Metaphor and Catachresis "The first thing that strikes one in the history of the terms 'metaphor' and 'catachresis' is the apparently unnecessary confusion of the two since the difference between them was clearly defined as early as Quintilian's discussion of catachresis in the Institutio Oratoria. Catachresis (abusio, or abuse) is de...
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