Subject Index to On the Sublime
Arrangement, as changed by emotion, 22.2
as source of sublimity, 8.1 Asyndeton, 19.1, 20.2
Athroismos, 23.1
Characterization, 29.2, 34.2-34.3
Climax, 23.l
Colkx1.uialisms, 31.1
Conception, as source of sublimity, 8.1
Dactylic rhythm, 39.4
Development, l l.l-11.2, 12.1-12.2
Dichorees, 41.1
Diction, 30.1-30.2
pettiness of, 43.1-43.6
Emotion, 2.2, 3.5, 8.2-8.4, 20.2, 23.1,
24.2, 27.1, 29.2
32.6, 34.4, 38.3-38.6
as concealment of figures, 17.2 as source of sublimity, 8.1
best when arising at right moment, 18.2
effect of metaphors on, 32.4 in encomia, 8.3
selection of emotional experiences,
IO.I, 10.3
shown in hyperbaton, 22.l
Emulation, 13.4-13.5
Encomium, 38.2
Epanaphora, 20.2-20.3
Figures, accumulation of, 20.1-20.3 as source of sublimity, 8. I
best when hidden, 17.l, 38.3 Freedom, political, relation to
sublimity,
44.1-44.5
Historical present, 25.1
Human nature, relationship to sublim ity, 35.2-35.5
Hyperbaton, 22.1-22.4
as evidence of emotion, 22.1 Hyperbole, 23.4, 38.3-38.6
Imagery, 15.2-15.12
among rhetoricians, 15.9-15.11 among the tragedians, 15.5-15.8
Indirect statement, shifts to and from, 27.1
Laughter, 38.6
Luck, 2.3
Metaphors, mollifiers of, 32.3 number of, 32.1-32.4
Mimesis, 13.2
difference from theft, 13.4
Nature, 36.3
relation to sublimity, 2.2 relation to technique, 36.4
Novelty, quest for, 5.1 Oaths, 16.1-16.4
Parenthyrson, 3.5
Periphrasis, 28.1-29.1
Peroration, Odyssey as peroration of
Iliad, 9.12
Person, change of, 26.1-26.3 shifts in, 27.2-27.4
Persuasion, difference from sublimity, l.4
Phrasing, as source of sublimity, 8.1 Polyptoton, 23.l
Pygmies, 44.5
Pyrrhics, 41.1
Questions and interrogations, 18.2 Rhythm, 39.3-42.1
Silence, 9.2
Slavery, relation to sublimity, 44.3-44.5 Sublimity, as concealment of figures,
17.2
as resonance of a great mind, 9.2 decline of, 44.1-44.11
definition of, 1.4, 9.2, 12.1 difference from development, 12.1 effect of rhythm on, 40.1-40.2 effects on soul of, 7.2
whether from nature or technique, 2.1-2.3
Syncope, 42.1
Technique, 36.3
relation to nature, 36.4
source of rhetorical excellence, 2.1-2.3 Test of time, 7.4, 14.2-14.3
Trochees, 41.1
Tropes, 32.6-32.7 excessive use of, 32.7
Turgidity, 3.3
Variation, 23.2-23.4
Wealth, effects of on sublimity, 44.7 Wit, false, 3.4, 4.1-4.8
undergraduate, 3.4
