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There is more than a touch of Euphuism in Stevenson; he was never insincere, but he was consciously fine.
ESSAYS ON MODERN NOVELISTSWILLIAM LYON PHELPSMuch euphuism, much studied grace of manner, much formal assertion of scholarship, mingling with his force of imagination.
A POPULAR HANDBOOK TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY, VOLUME I, FOREIGN SCHOOLSVARIOUSIt was not the matter of Euphues, however, so much as the style which made it famous (see Euphuism).
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 17, SLICE 2VARIOUSEuphuism owes to him its name and its diffusion in England; but not, although it is usually so stated, its birth.
THE ENGLISH NOVEL IN THE TIME OF SHAKESPEAREJ. J. JUSSERANDCynthia's Revels has the same defects, but is to some extent saved by its sharp raillery of euphuism.
A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATUREGEORGE SAINTSBURYBut Raleigh's usual style differs very little from that of other men of his day, who kept clear at once of euphuism and burlesque.
A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATUREGEORGE SAINTSBURYSo a handsome euphuism tries to save his fame from harsher epithets.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS AND HOW HE RECEIVED AND IMPARTED THE SPIRIT OF DISCOVERYJUSTIN WINSORThey fail because their authors have imagined that "Euphuism" is simply a highly artificial and "flowery" way of talking.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: MODERNG. H. MAIRFew of the poems in the Anthology depict any ephemeral phase or fashion of opinion, like the Euphuism of the sixteenth century.
POLITICAL AND LITERARY ESSAYS, 1908-1913EVELYN BARINGEverybody speaks Euphuism, though classical allusion alone is not essentially Euphuistic.
THE BIBLIOTAPHLEON H. VINCENTWORDS RELATED TO EUPHUISM
- adumbration
- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- analogue
- analogy
- anaphora
- anticlimax
- antistrophe
- antithesis
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- asyndeton
- bathos
- communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device
- comparison
- conceit
- device
- echoism
- ellipsis
- euphemism
- euphuism
- exaggeration
- expression
- flourish
- flower
- hyperbole
- image
- imagery
- irony
- litotes
- malapropism
- manner of speaking
- metaphor
- metonymy
- onomatopoeia
- ornament
- oxymoron
- parable
- paradox
- parallel
- personification
- proteron
- rhetoric
- sarcasm
- satire
- simile
- synecdoche
- trope
- tropology
- turn of phrase
- understatement
- way of speaking
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