puttenham's figures auricular, pt. ii

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Of the figures which we call Sensable, because they alter and affect the minde by alteration of sense and first in single words.

due to massive public demand

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Catachresis, or the figure of abuse.	2
Metaphora, or the figure of transport.	1
Tapinosis, or the abbaser.	1
Metalepsis, or the far-set.	1
Epitheton, or figure of attribution, otherwise called the qualifier.	1
Onomatopeia, or the newnamer.	0
Antonomasia, or the surnamer.	0
Emphasis, or the reinforcer.	0
Liptote, or the moderator.	0
Paradiastole, or the currifauel, otherwise called the soother. Meiosis, or the disabler.	0
Metonymia, or the misnamer.	0
Synecdoche, or the figure of quick conceit.	0

― human centipede hz (thomp), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 14:45 (thirteen years ago)

or as we giue special names to the voices of dombe beasts, as to say, a horse neigheth, a lyon brayes, a swine grunts, a hen cackleth, a dogge howles, and a hundreth mo such new names as any man hath libertie to deuise, so it be fittie for the thing which he couets to expresse

― human centipede hz (thomp), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 14:46 (thirteen years ago)

poor Meiosis got ostracized

― Aimless, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 16:46 (thirteen years ago)

i noticed that. i would ask that those supporting meiosis or my new namesake specify, in this thread, which figure has their support, for the sake of total accuracy when it comes to sum these things up.

― paradiastole, or the currifauel, otherwise called (thomp), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 17:38 (thirteen years ago)

btw, I willingly live or die at the side of metaphor

― Aimless, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 18:17 (thirteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Sunday, 30 September 2012 00:01 (thirteen years ago)

this looks dope, why you gotta play coy tom

― j., Sunday, 30 September 2012 01:24 (thirteen years ago)

Tapinosis gets subsumed by "poor" meiosis everywhere, in an odd meta-deprecation.

― lutefish, Sunday, 30 September 2012 20:44 (thirteen years ago)

people should get their votes in quickly in this important poll

― paradiastole, or the currifauel, otherwise called (thomp), Sunday, 30 September 2012 20:58 (thirteen years ago)

beee uh abbasssserrrrrr

― j., Sunday, 30 September 2012 22:16 (thirteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Monday, 1 October 2012 00:01 (thirteen years ago)

a rousing success

― j., Monday, 1 October 2012 11:47 (thirteen years ago)

so pleased my late vote for catachresis pushed it into first.

― woof, Monday, 1 October 2012 11:55 (thirteen years ago)

man i was hoping for votes in the double figures this time

― set the controls for the heart of the congos (thomp), Monday, 1 October 2012 11:55 (thirteen years ago)

Or as another said to a mouthy Aduocate, why barkest though at me so sore?

I liked the modern-feeling use of the word 'mouthy' here, tho wondered if it gestured to an extent more at aggressive garrulity than chippy impertinence to be defined differently. But no! I see it's the first example of usage in the OED for

1.
a. Of a person: characterized by railing, ranting, or the use of bombastic language; loud-mouthed, outspoken, rude. Cf. lippy

of which the last is:

1993 Daily Tel. 10 Sept. 13/5 Eighteen months for drugs and, like me, a mouthy little sod.

― Fizzles, Monday, 1 October 2012 18:10 (thirteen years ago)

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