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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. Tautogram - Wikipedia

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    Out of these three, a total of 7,000 words have been used in the first, 10,000 words in the second and about 10,000 words in the third and each word begins with the same letter. [2] [3] [4] This is the single and larger effort of tautogram in Bengali literature. An example of a tautogram in Bengali is a story with all words starting with "K" :

  4. Pleonasm - Wikipedia

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    One can also find a way around this verb, using another one which does not is used to express idiomatic expressions nor necessitate a pleonasm, because it only has one meaning: 我要就寝 ('I want "to dorm " ') Nevertheless, 就寝 is a verb used in high-register diction, just like English verbs with Latin roots.

  5. Doublet (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    This is most significant at the level of morphemes, where a given character is pronounced differently in different words, but in some cases the same word was borrowed twice. These have been very valuable to scholars for reconstructing the sounds of Middle Chinese , and understanding how the pronunciations differed between Chinese regions and ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Palilalia - Wikipedia

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    Palilalia is defined as the repetition of the speaker's words or phrases, often for a varying number of repeats. Repeated units are generally whole sections of words and are larger than a syllable, with words being repeated the most often, followed by phrases, and then syllables or sounds.

  8. List of forms of word play - Wikipedia

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    Blanagram: rearranging the letters of a word or phrase and substituting one single letter to produce a new word or phrase; Letter bank: using the letters from a certain word or phrase as many times as wanted to produce a new word or phrase; Jumble: a kind of word game in which the solution of a puzzle is its anagram; Chronogram: a phrase or ...

  9. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    Syncope: omission of parts of a word or phrase. Symploce: simultaneous use of anaphora and epistrophe: the repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning and the end of successive clauses. Synchysis: words that are intentionally scattered to create perplexment. Synecdoche: referring to a part by its whole or vice versa.