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  2. Volta (literature) - Wikipedia

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    In the last two decades, the volta has become conventionally used as a word for this, stemming supposedly from technique specific mostly to sonnets. Volta is not, in fact, a term used by many earlier critics [1] when they address the idea of a turn in a poem, and they usually are not discussing the sonnet form. It is a common Italian word more ...

  3. List of forms of word play - Wikipedia

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    Portmanteau: a new word that fuses two words or morphemes; Retronym: creating a new word to denote an old object or concept whose original name has come to be used for something else; Oxymoron: a combination of two contradictory terms; Zeugma and Syllepsis: the use of a single phrase in two ways simultaneously

  4. List of idioms of improbability - Wikipedia

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    The word nikoli, when stressed on the second syllable, means "never", when stressed on the first it is the locative case of Nikola, i.e. Nicholas; Spanish – cuando las vacas vuelen ("when cows fly") or cuando los chanchos vuelen ("when pigs fly"). Its most common use is in response to an affirmative statement, for example "I saw Mrs. Smith ...

  5. Fan (Daoism) - Wikipedia

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    Hexagram 24: 復; fù Return (The Turning Point) Early Daoist texts use fan with two near synonyms. [4] 歸; guī has translation equivalents of: "1. Return home; return whence one came, originally or recently; go back to, retreat to; come full circle; recede; withdraw.

  6. Glossary of rhetorical terms - Wikipedia

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    Adianoeta – a phrase carrying two meanings: an obvious meaning and a second, more subtle and ingenious one (more commonly known as double entendre). Alliteration – the use of a series of two or more words beginning with the same letter. Amphiboly – a sentence that may be interpreted in more than one way due to ambiguous structure.

  7. Metonymy - Wikipedia

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    We then figure out that word's relationship with other words. We understand and then call the word by a name that it is associated with. "Perceived as such then metonymy will be a figure of speech in which there is a process of abstracting a relation of proximity between two words to the extent that one will be used in place of another."

  8. Switch your Inbox style in AOL Mail

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    1. Click the Settings icon | select More Settings. 2. Click Viewing email. 3. Under Inbox style, select Unified Inbox or use New/Old Mail. 4. Click Back to Inbox or Back to New Mail when done.

  9. Head shake - Wikipedia

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    It has been stated [4] that babies, when hungry, search for their mother's milk by moving their heads vertically, but decline milk by turning their head from side to side. An early survey of head shake and other gestures was The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals , written by Charles Darwin in 1872.