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Ramus faults each of these techniques as necessarily deceptive on the ground that they deviate from his famous method of presentation. When Milton revises Ramus's 1572 Dialecticae into his own 1672 Artis Logicae, he recasts crypsis in all its forms as rhetorically useful and potentially revelatory. In his logic text, Milton shows how crypsis works through rhetorical figures to achieve legitimate pedagogic and poetic goals, and he reveals how discerning readers may interpret it. In this project, I show how Milton employs crypsis through select rhetorical figures in Paradise Lost to meet the unique goals of his poetic kairos and to prompt readers toward recognition of the unique qualities of that kairos. 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