“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.”