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Some
include the clear and vivid description of places
under the same heading, while others call it
topography.
I have found some who speak of irony as dissimulation, but, in view of the fact that this latter name
[p. 401]
does not cover the whole range of this figure, I shall
follow my general rule and rest content with the
Greek term. Irony involving a figure does not differ
from the irony which is a trope, as far as its genus is
concerned, since in both cases we understand something which is the opposite of what is actually said;
on the other hand, a careful consideration of the
species of irony will soon reveal the fact that they
differ.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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