Can be both well or poorly employed. In general tropes work well when making the work more specific. Campbell uses contemporary examples from a wide variety of sources. Isaac Bickerstaff, from Addison and Steele's Tatler is mentioned several times. Campbell calls upon both translations and original works by Dryden, Thomson, Milton, and Shakespeare to illustrate his points.
Brevity is the bomb.
333 with example from Shakespeare. On this article it may be established as a maxim that admits no exception, and it is the only maxim which this article admits, that the fewer the words are, provided neither propriety nor perspicuity be violated, the expression is always the more vivid. Works Cited Campbell, George. The Philosophy of Rhetoric, ed. Lloyd F. Bitzer.