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Allusion, or alluding, is a figure of speech that makes a reference to someone or something by name (a person, object, location, etc.) without explaining how it relates to the given context, [1] [2] so that the audience must realize the connection in their own minds. [3]
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allude and elude; altar and alter; appose and oppose; arc and ark; are and our; ascent and assent; ate and eight; away and aweigh; aye, eye and I; bade and bayed; bail and bale; bait and bate; bald, balled and bawled; ball and bawl; band and banned; bard and barred; bare and bear; baron and barren; base and bass; based and baste; bazaar and ...
Antithesis (pl.: antitheses; Greek for "setting opposite", from ἀντι-"against" and θέσις "placing") is used in writing or speech either as a proposition that contrasts with or reverses some previously mentioned proposition, or when two opposites are introduced together for contrasting effect. [1] [2]
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Antiphrasis is the rhetorical device of saying the opposite of what is actually meant in such a way that it is obvious what the true intention is. [1] Some authors treat and use antiphrasis just as irony, euphemism or litotes. [2] When the antiphrasal use is very common, the word can become an auto-antonym, [3] having opposite meanings ...
Influenza is surging in the U.S., with doctor visits for flu symptoms at a 15-year high. Why is this flu season so bad? Doctors discuss flu trends and prevention.
Texas law enforcement issued a word of warning to Ford truck owners after they arrested a trio of thieves who targeted the high-end truck model by stealing taillights.