Rhetorical device of the day: Scesis Onomaton and Apophasis

[lucretius]

From the vault of obsolete language tricks, come two useful rhetorical devices I was never taught.

Scesis Onomaton is the emphasis of an idea by stating it several times in succeeding synonymous short phrases. I recommend three.

We had been defeated, vanquished, driven in defeat from the field of battle!

He was pudgy, had a few extra pounds, was

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[atterlothe]

Fun things I haven't given due consideration since my old philological daze....not to mention, useful things.