Allen Tate once made a useful distinction between structure and texture. The distinction referred to
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the rhetorical, stylistic, metaphorical and other devices, and the main line of a narrative, argument, etc., respectively.
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objects and materials on which a narrative casts light, and the devices employed to enlighten them respectively.
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the main line of a narrative, argument, etc., and the rhetorical, stylistic, metaphorical and other devices respectively.
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the devices employed to enlighten objects and materials in a narrative, and the objects and material themselves, respectively.