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  2. Analogy - Wikipedia

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    Neologisms can also be formed by analogy with existing words. A good example is software, formed by analogy with hardware; other analogous neologisms such as firmware and vapourware have followed. Another example is the humorous [18] term underwhelm, formed by analogy with overwhelm.

  3. Glossary of rhetorical terms - Wikipedia

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    Anadiplosis – repeating the last word of one clause or phrase to begin the next. Analogy – the use of a similar or parallel case or example to reason or argue a point. Anaphora – a succession of sentences beginning with the same word or group of words. Anastrophe – inversion of the natural word order.

  4. Analogical change - Wikipedia

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    Analogical creation refers to cases when analogy creates a new word or form of a word. [1] The example of flammable, having the same meaning as inflammable, is an example of analogical creation, as the word flammable has been created and added to the language system. Analogical maintenance occurs when a regular sound change is prevented from ...

  5. List of fallacies - Wikipedia

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    False analogy – an argument by analogy in which the analogy is poorly suited. [54] Hasty generalization (fallacy of insufficient statistics, fallacy of insufficient sample, fallacy of the lonely fact, hasty induction, secundum quid, converse accident, jumping to conclusions) – basing a broad conclusion on a small or unrepresentative sample ...

  6. List of English homographs - Wikipedia

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    When the prefix "re-" is added to a monosyllabic word, the word gains currency both as a noun and as a verb. Most of the pairs listed below are closely related: for example, "absent" as a noun meaning "missing", and as a verb meaning "to make oneself missing". There are also many cases in which homographs are of an entirely separate origin, or ...

  7. You have two cows - Wikipedia

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    "You have two cows" is a political analogy and form of early 20th century American political satire to describe various economic systems of government. The setup of a typical joke of this kind is the assumption that the listener lives within a given system and has two cows, a very relatable occupation across countries and national boundaries.

  8. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    A picture is worth a thousand words; A rising tide lifts all boats; A rolling stone gathers no moss; A ship in a harbour is safe, but that's not what a ship is for; A stitch in time (saves nine) A watched man never plays; A watched pot/kettle never boils; Absence makes the heart grow fonder; Absolute power corrupts absolutely (John Dalberg ...

  9. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    Tropes (from Greek trepein, 'to turn') change the general meaning of words. An example of a trope is irony, which is the use of words to convey the opposite of their usual meaning ("For Brutus is an honorable man; / So are they all, all honorable men"). During the Renaissance, scholars meticulously enumerated and classified figures of speech.

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