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Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
A fowler is intent on preparing a snare of reeds and bird-lime, then catches sight of a thrush and inadvertently steps on the snake. He dies in the knowledge that killer hunters will die through the agency of others that hunt to kill. [5] English tellings, such as those of Roger L'Estrange and Samuel Croxall, speak of the ways of 'Providence'.
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When I was little and visiting my grandmother, we wanted pancakes for breakfast one morning and she replied that pancakes are a snare and a delusion. Since then, I have often heard it said of many other things. Googling "snare and a delusion" gets lots of hits, but no indication of the original source. Angr 09:02, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Cursed Bunny consists of ten short stories, each an example of speculative fiction.The stories are: "The Head" "The Embodiment" "Cursed Bunny" "The Frozen Finger" "Snare" ...
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[6] Adventure fiction often overlaps with other genres, notably war novels, crime novels, detective novels, sea stories, Robinsonades, spy stories (as in the works of John Buchan, Eric Ambler and Ian Fleming), science fiction, fantasy, (Robert E. Howard and J. R. R. Tolkien both combined the secondary world story with the adventure novel) [7 ...
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