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This is not a slippage in meaning, but rather amplification, making use of what the rhetoricians called figurative speech, allegorical and metonymical in its forms. When people tell stories or jokes or use anecdotes, analogies, rhetorical questions, and metaphors (or, for that matter, any other figurative speech before an audience), they not only become more animated, but also their voices have a refreshingly broad conversational range. And so I say, 'Panis est corpus' [bread is the body: the predication at issue] is a figurative speech speaking sacramentally; for it is a sacrament of his body" (450). |
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