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  2. Tautology (language) - Wikipedia

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    In literary criticism and rhetoric, a tautology is a statement that repeats an idea using near-synonymous morphemes, words or phrases, effectively "saying the same thing twice". [1] [2] Tautology and pleonasm are not consistently differentiated in literature. [3] Like pleonasm, tautology is often considered a fault of style when unintentional.

  3. List of idioms of improbability - Wikipedia

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    The "Twelfth of Never" will never come to pass. [4] A song of the same name was written by Johnny Mathis in 1956. "On Tibb's Eve" refers to the saint's day of a saint who never existed. [5] "When two Sundays come together" [6] "If the sky falls, we shall catch larks" means that it is pointless to worry about things that will never happen. [7]

  4. Double negative - Wikipedia

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    The particle is usually omitted in speech but the mutation remains: [Ni] wyddai neb (word-for-word, "[Not] not-knew nobody") means "Nobody knew" and [Ni] chaiff Aled fawr o bres (word-for-word, "[Not] not-will-get Aled lots of money") means "Aled will not get much money". This is not usually regarded as three negative markers, however, because ...

  5. Double entendre - Wikipedia

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    Lodgings to Let, an 1814 engraving featuring a double entendre. He: "My sweet honey, I hope you are to be let with the Lodgins!" She: "No, sir, I am to be let alone".. A double entendre [note 1] (plural double entendres) is a figure of speech or a particular way of wording that is devised to have a double meaning, one of which is typically obvious, and the other often conveys a message that ...

  6. Travis Scott Reveals Why He Performed the Same Song 10 Times ...

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    According to Setlist.FM, he performed “FE!N” a total of 12 times in a row, including once with rapper Sheck Wes, who performed an unreleased verse that did not appear on the final version of ...

  7. You Never Love the Same Way Twice - Wikipedia

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    Larry Flick from Billboard described 'You Never Love the Same Way Twice' as "slammin'", [2] and a "disco bauble that tingles with lush strings and a vocal that is commanding without flying out of control." [3] He complimented Rozalla's voice as a "warm, soulful quality that brings this disco-drenched house mover to vibrant life." He concluded ...

  8. Pleonasm - Wikipedia

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    In some languages, such as French, the word is not optional and should therefore not be considered pleonastic. The same phenomenon occurs in Spanish with subject pronouns. Since Spanish is a null-subject language, which allows subject pronouns to be deleted when understood, the following sentences mean the same: " Yo te amo. "

  9. Epizeuxis - Wikipedia

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    In rhetoric, epizeuxis, also known as palilogia, is the repetition of a word or phrase in immediate succession, typically within the same sentence, for vehemence or emphasis. [1] [2] A closely related rhetorical device is diacope, which involves word repetition that is broken up by a single intervening word, or a small number of intervening ...