"O! Grave, where is thy Victory, O! Death where is thy sting!" This
figure is very closely allied to Personification.

_Vision_ (from the Latin _videre_, to see) consists in treating the past,
the future, or the remote as if present in time or place. It is appropriate
to animated description, as it produces the effect of an ideal presence.
"The old warrior looks down from the canvas and tells us to be men worthy
of our sires."

This figure is much exemplified in the Bible. The book of Revelation is a
vision of the future. The author who uses the figure most is Carlyle.

An _Antithesis_ (from the Greek _anti_, against, and _tithenai_, to set)
is founded on contrast; it consists in putting two unlike things in such
a position that each will appear more striking by the contrast.

"Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring out the false, ring in the true."

"Let us be _friends_ in peace, but _enemies_ in war."

Here is a fine antithesis in the description of a steam engine--"It can
engrave a seal and crush masses of obdurate metal before it; draw out,
without breaking, a thread as fine as a gossamer; and lift up a ship of
war like a bauble in the air; it can embroider muslin and forge anchors;
cut steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of
winds and waves."

_Climax_ (from the Greek, _klimax_, a ladder), is an arrangement of