Joshua T wrote: > > >If hyperbole and ellipsis can be manners of speaking, why > >not parabola? > > > > P. > > In some rhetoric guides, it is! > http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/parabola.htm > Die Enden der Parabel: > http://www.pynchonfiles.com/german3.JPG Thanks. So it's another name for a parable more or less. And referred to by the Venerable Bede no less. P.