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| Rhetorically, Loy's enjambment emphasizes her upper-case formatting of the signifier NOTHING, coupled with the previous line's aposiopesis of emdashes bleeding into the white emptiness of the page. The figures in the sculpture and paintings cited by Quintilian embody the affective function that the related rhetorical figures have in language: with their covered faces, Agamemnon and Antigonus stand for the rhetorical figure of aposiopesis or omission; (16) and the Discobolus, or Discus-Thrower, with its twisted torso, stands for the rhetorical figure of antithesis, the juxtaposition of contraries. |
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