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Bullinger's Figures of Speech Used in the Bible

Letter: P

Paeanismos; or, Exultation
Palinodia; or, Retracting
Parabola; or, Parable: i.e., Continued Simile
Paradiastole; or, Neithers and Nors
Paradiegesis; or, a Bye-Leading
Paraeneticon; or, Exhortation
Paraleipsis; or, a Passing by
Parallelism; or, Parallel Lines
Parecbasis; or, Digression
Parechesls; or, Foreign Paronomasia
Paregmenon; or, Derivation
Parembole; or, Insertion
Parenthesis
Paroemia; or, Proverb
Paromoeosis; or, Like-Sounding Inflections
Paromologia; or, Confession
Paronomasia; or, Rhyming-Words
Pathopoeia; or, Description of Feelings
Pathopoeia; or, Pathos
Periphrasis; or, Circumlocution
Peristasis; or, Description of Circumstances
Pleonasm; or, Redundancy
Ploce: or, Word-Folding
Polyonymia; or, Many Names
Polyptoton; or, Many Inflections
Polysyndeton; or, Many-ands
Pragmatographia; or, Description of Actions
Prodiorthosis; or, Warning
Proecthesis; or, Justification
Prolepsis (Ampliatio); or, Anticipation
Prolepsis (Occupatio); or, Anticipation
Prosapodosis; or, Detailing
Proslepsis; or, Assumption
Prosopographia; or, Description of Persons
Prosopopoeia; or, Personification
Protherapeia; or, Conciliation
Protimesis; or, Description of Order

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