seen in tropes and figures.

He continues:

There are foure kinds of tropes, substitution, comprehension,
comparation, simulation. The affection of a trope is the quality whereby
it requires a second resolution. These affections are five: abuse,
duplication, continuation, superlocution, sublocution. A figure is an
affecting kind of speech without consideration had of any borrowed
sense. A figure is two-fold: relative and independent,

and he names over in his jargon the six figures which are of each
kind.[150] If this be rhetoric, perhaps there was justification for John
Smith's _The Mysterie of Rhetorique Unvailed_ (1657), which continued the
fallacious tradition by dividing rhetoric into elocution and
pronunciation.

This perversion of rhetoric which considered it as concerned only with
style, or aureate language, was not restricted to the school books. The
popular use of rhetoric as synonymous with "fine honeyed speech,"[151] is
seen in a passage from _Old Fortunatus_, where it carries the modern
connotation of a meretricious substitute for genuine feeling, as where
Agripyne says,

"Methinks a soldier is the most faithful lover of all men else; for his
affection stands not upon compliment. His wooing is plain home spun
stuff; there's no outlandish thread in it, no rhetoric."[152]