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  2. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    For example, the phrase, "John, my best friend" uses the scheme known as apposition. 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").

  3. Satori - Wikipedia

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    Satori (Japanese: 悟り) is a Japanese Buddhist term for "awakening", "comprehension; understanding". [1] The word derives from the Japanese verb satoru. [2] [3]In the Zen Buddhist tradition, satori refers to a deep experience of kenshō, [4] [5] "seeing into one's true nature".

  4. Analogy of the Sun - Wikipedia

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    Analogously, Socrates says, as the sun illuminates the visible with light so the idea of goodness illuminates the intelligible with truth, which in turn makes it possible for people to have knowledge. Also, as the eye's ability to see is made possible by the light of the Sun so the soul's ability to know is made possible by the truth of goodness.

  5. Roget's Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Each class is composed of multiple divisions and then sections. This may be conceptualized as a tree containing over a thousand branches for individual "meaning clusters" or semantically linked words. Although these words are not strictly synonyms, they can be viewed as colours or connotations of a meaning or as a spectrum of a concept.

  6. The Unanswered Question (lecture series) - Wikipedia

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    For example, the X-factor between Juliet and the sun would be radiance; the X-factor in musical metaphors would be a similarity like rhythm or contour (p. 127). In lecture 6, Bernstein reuses this term, but this time to refer to the junction of poetry and music. Bernstein's definition of syntax has also morphed through the lecture series.

  7. Synecdoche - Wikipedia

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    Synecdoche is a rhetorical trope and a kind of metonymy—a figure of speech using a term to denote one thing to refer to a related thing. [9] [10]Synecdoche (and thus metonymy) is distinct from metaphor, [11] although in the past, it was considered a sub-species of metaphor, intending metaphor as a type of conceptual substitution (as Quintilian does in Institutio oratoria Book VIII).

  8. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    The light is on but nobody is home; The longest day must have an end; The longest journey starts with a single step; The Moon is made of green cheese; The more the merrier; The more things change, the more they stay the same; The only disability in life is a bad attitude – Scott Hamilton; The only way to understand a woman is to love her

  9. A picture is worth a thousand words - Wikipedia

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    [2] In an article in the Printers' Ink, the same quote is attributed to Brisbane. [3] A similar phrase, "One Look Is Worth A Thousand Words", appears in a 1913 newspaper advertisement for the Piqua Auto Supply House of Piqua, Ohio. [4] Early use of the exact phrase appears in a 1918 newspaper advertisement for the San Antonio Light, which says: