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  2. List of forms of word play - Wikipedia

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    Eponym: applying a person's name to a place; Pseudonym: an artificial fictitious name, used as an alternative to one's legal name; Sobriquet: a popularized nickname; Techniques that involves figure of speech. Conversion (word formation): a transformation of a word of one word class into another word class

  3. Indirect speech - Wikipedia

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    The indirect speech sentence is then ambiguous since it can be a result of two different direct speech sentences. For example: I can get it for free. OR I could get it for free. He said that he could get it for free. (ambiguity) However, in many Slavic languages, there is no change of tense in indirect speech and so there is no ambiguity.

  4. Circumlocution - Wikipedia

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    It can also come in the form of roundabout speech wherein many words are used to describe something that already has a common and concise term (for example, saying "a tool used for cutting things such as paper and hair" instead of "scissors"). [3] Most dictionaries use circumlocution to define words.

  5. Elocution - Wikipedia

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    By the end of the century, several Speaker texts circulated throughout the United States, including McGuffey's New Juvenile Speaker, the Manual of Elocution and Reading, the Star Speaker, and the popular Delsarte Speaker. Some of these texts even included pictorial depictions of body movements and gestures to augment written descriptions.

  6. Kindergarten teacher's touching speech and song at graduation

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    Kindergarten teacher Jeff Berry gave a touching speech at the Lawrence High School graduation on June 18, recognizing that many of the grads had been part of his kindergarten class when he began ...

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  8. The #1 Best Way To End a Card, According to Psychologists

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    14 Other Great Ways to End a Card 1. With gratitude. Dr. Allen says this phrase is perfect for cards designed to express appreciation, namely thank you cards. However, Shelton says the phrase ...

  9. Repetition (rhetorical device) - Wikipedia

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    Repetition is the simple repeating of a word, within a short space of words (including in a poem), with no particular placement of the words to secure emphasis.It is a multilinguistic written or spoken device, frequently used in English and several other languages, such as Hindi and Chinese, and so rarely termed a figure of speech.