Phrase guide
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noun
A phrase (set phrase or created phrase) that uses reduplication, onomatopoeia, or other phonetic markers that increase memorability and “musicality” (making rhetoric pleasing or entertaining).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: device
Narrower terms: anacoluthia, anacoluthon, asyndeton, repetition, anastrophe, inversion, antiphrasis, antithesis, antinomasia, apophasis, aposiopesis, apostrophe, catachresis, chiasmus, climax, conversion, ecphonesis, exclamation, emphasis, enallage, epanorthosis, epiplexis, hendiadys, hypallage, hyperbaton, hypozeugma, hypozeuxis, hysteron proteron, litotes, meiosis, onomatopoeia, paralepsis, paraleipsis, paralipsis, preterition, paregmenon, polysyndeton, prolepsis, wellerism, trope, figure of speech, figure, image
History
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Across languages
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