510 Terrance Callan omitting and excluding nothing (209), by repetition (211), by use of the past tense (214), by gradually revealing something (216), by use of circumstantial detail (217), harsh sounds (219) and onomatopoeia (220). Persuasiveness depends on clarity and familiarity (221). Omitting some points for the listener to work out for himself involves the listener (222). Letters should be written in plain style (223), combining the elegant style with the plain style (235). The faulty style corresponding to the plain is the arid style (236). Arid diction is seen in narrating a great event in trivial language (237). Arid composition is seen in an unbroken series of phrases or abruptly breaking off a clause and not completing it (238). The diction of Galatians is not particularly normal and familiar since it uses four rare words and seven neologisms. If we combine the metaphors of Galatians into basic metaphors as outlined above, it still has 15 different metaphors. It also includes as many as 27 other tropes. 2 Peter, a text written in the full or grand style, uses more rare words, i.e., ten, but fewer neologisms, i.e., four. 2 Peter has 26 metaphors and as many as 29 other tropes. Since 2 Peter is about half the length of Galatians, the two use about the same percentage of neologisms, while Galatians uses a significantly smaller percentage of rare words. Proportionately Galatians has half the number of metaphors and other tropes found in 2 Peter. Although Galatians seems to use more neologisms than is consistent with writing in plain style, its diction is otherwise only about half as elevated as that of 2 Peter, which seems consistent with Galatians’ being written in plain style. This is even more the case when we observe that many of Galatians’ metaphors are highly conventional and probably had lost much of their metaphoric impact by the time Paul wrote. Perhaps it is written in the Asian version of plain style, that is, a somewhat more ornate version of the plain style (36). Many of the things that Demetrius recommends as contributing to clarity are characteristic of Galatians. In general Paul has used connectives and avoided asyndeton. We can see asyndeton in the lack of a particle at the beginning of 3,13 and likewise in 3,28; 4,10; 4,12b; 5,4; 5,19-21 and 5,22. In 3,28 Paul probably quotes a fixed formula; (36) Witherington also suggests that Galatians was written in Asian style (Grace in Galatia, 32-33). On Asian style see CALLAN, “Style of the Second Letter of Peter”, 204, 216-224.