Hypocatastasis is a figure of speech that declares or implies a resemblance, representation or comparison.
[2] Since then the term has mostly been confined to analysis of Biblical rhetoric, and it has never migrated to general public usage.
They are violent and extraordinary, and are employed by substitution, to signify analogous acts of extreme oppression and tyranny.
But, if he said simply, “Beast!” that would be hypocatastasis,[4] for the other part of the simile or metaphor (“you”), would be implied and not stated.
This figure, therefore, is calculated to arouse the mind and attract and excite the attention to the greatest extent.