by a
change from the natural order of the words in a sentence._

"_Thine_ be the glory!"

"_Few_ were the words they said."

"He saved others; _himself_ he cannot save."

_Exclamation is an expression of strong emotion in abrupt, inverted,
or elliptical phrases._ It is among sentences what the interjection is
among words.

"How far that little candle throws its beams!"

"Oh, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!"

_Interrogation is a figure in which a question is asked, not to get an
answer, but for the sake of emphasis._

"Do men gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?"

"Fear ye foes who kill for hire?
Will ye to your homes retire?"

"Am I a coward?"

_Climax is a figure in which the intensity of the thought and emotion
gradually increases with the successive groups of words or phrases._
(See p. 211.)

"Your children do not grow faster from infancy to manhood
than they [the American colonists] spread from families to
communities, from villages to nations."

_Irony is a figure in which one thing is said and the opposite is
meant._

"And Job answered and said, No doubt but ye are the people,
and wisdom shall die with you."

"O Jew, an upright judge, a learned judge!"

Four other figures should be mentioned: metonymy, synecdoche,
allusion, and hyperbole.

_Metonymy calls one thing by the name of another which is closely
related to the first._ The most common relations are cause and effect,
container and thing contained, and sign and the thing signified.

"From the cradle to the grave is but a day."

"I did dream of money-bags to-night."

_Synecdoche is that figure of speech in which a part is put for the
whole, or the whole for a part._

"Fifty sail came into harbor."

"The redcoats are marching."

_Allusion is a reference to something in history or literature with
which every one is supposed to be acquainted._

"A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel!"

Men still sigh for the flesh pots of Egypt; still worship
the golden calf.

There is no "Open Sesame" to the treasures of learning; they
must be acquired by hard study.

Milton and Shakespeare are full of allusions to the classic literature
of Greece and Rome.

_Hyperbole is an exaggerated statement made for effect._

"He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders,
long arms and l