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a wordy and highly ornamented style
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asiatic |
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"Those images that yetFresh images beget,That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea. |
assonance |
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He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac |
asyndenton |
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"Some books are to be tasted. Others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. That is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention." |
attic |
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It's a well hit ball, it's a long drive, it might be, it could be, it IS . . . a home run. |
Auxesis |
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"A vile beastly rottenheaded foolbegotten brazenthroated pernicious piggish screaming, tearing, roaring, perplexing, splitmecrackle crashmecriggle insane ass of a woman is practicing howling below-stairs with a brute of a singingmaster so horribly, that my head is nearly off. |
Bdelygmia |
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"Red trains cough Jewish underwear for keeps! Expanding smells of silence. Gravy snot whistling like sea birds. |
catachresis |
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"These lies are like their father that begets them, gross as a mountain, open, palpable. Why, thou claybrained guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou whoreson, obscene, greasy tallow-catch— |
categoria |
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget. |
chiasmus |
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An elementary rhetorical exercise (progymnasmata) in which the speaker or writer comments briefly on a famous event or saying |
chreia |
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People say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' You know what? So is everybody. That's how time works.effectiveness has been worn out through overuse and excessive familiarity. |
cliche |
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Out of its vivid disorder comes order; from its rank smell rises the good aroma of courage and daring; out of its preliminary shabbiness comes the final splendor. And buried in the familiar boasts of its advance agents lies the modesty of most of its people." |
climax |
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Though shared by each of us and known to all, it seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time." |
common place |
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"With bad grace, [Shahid] had eventually conceded that [Iqbal] had to go. And then, yesterday, most amazing thing of all--he had gone! Moved out! Vamoosed! Iqbal was out of there! Elvis had left the building! The fat lady had sung! Mandela had been freed! Shahid had has life back!"(John Lanchester, Capital. W.W. Norton, 2012) |
commoratio |
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Because he was so small, Stuart was often hard to find around the house |
complex sentence |
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The kitchen table was set for breakfast, and the room smelled of coffee, bacon, damp plaster, and wood smoke from the stove. |
compound sentence |
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It has been said that Rowcliff is handsome, and I'll concede that his six feet of meat is distributed well enough, but his face reminds me of a camel with a built-in sneer |
concession |
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the main part of a speech or text in which logicalarguments in support of a position (or claim) are elaborated. |
confirmation |
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refers to the emotional implications and associations that aword may carry, |
connotation |
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refers to expansive richness andamplification as a stylistic goal. |
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