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  2. Vox Clamantis - Wikipedia

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    Vox Clamantis ("the voice of one crying out") is a Latin poem of 10,265 lines in elegiac couplets by John Gower (1330 – October 1408) . The first of the seven books is a dream vision giving a vivid account of the Peasants' Rebellion of 1381.

  3. List of forms of word play - Wikipedia

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    Techniques that involve semantics and the choosing of words. Anglish: a writing using exclusively words of Germanic origin; Auto-antonym: a word that contains opposite meanings; Autogram: a sentence that provide an inventory of its own characters; Irony; Malapropism: incorrect usage of a word by substituting a similar-sounding word with ...

  4. Epigoni (play) - Wikipedia

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    One was translated by Hugh Lloyd-Jones as "Most calamitous of sons, what a word have you uttered." [ 1 ] This was apparently stated by Eriphyle to Alcmaeon shortly before he killed her. [ 1 ] Another fragment has a similar theme: "O woman whose shamelessness has stopped at nothing and has gone yet further, no other evil is or ever will be worse ...

  5. Alliteration (Latin) - Wikipedia

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    For example, Ovid tends frequently to put alliterating words in the first half of the verse, while Virgil is more likely to put them in the second half. [83] In both poets, the most likely position for an alliterating word is after the 3rd-foot caesura , and the second most common the beginning of the verse.

  6. List of portmanteaus - Wikipedia

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    cattalo, from cattle and buffalo [2]; donkra, from donkey and zebra (progeny of donkey stallion and zebra mare) cf. zedonk below; llamanaco, from llama and guanaco [3]; wholphin, from whale and dolphin [2]

  7. Calamity - Wikipedia

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    Calamity, by The Curtains (2008); Calamity (board game), board game released by Games Workshop in 1983 Calamity, 1982 Czechoslovak film; Calamity, a Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary, 2020 animated film

  8. Paronym - Wikipedia

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    Paronymy is the relationship between a pair of words or phrases which are similar or partially identical in spelling, pronunciation and/or meaning. [1] In the discussion of semantic analysis, the term paronym can also be used in a narrower sense to refer to words that are derived from the same root, i.e. cognate words. [2] [3]

  9. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Homographs are words that have the same spelling but different meanings. For example, one can record a song or keep a record of documents. Homonyms are words that have the same pronunciation and spelling but different meanings. For example, rose (a type of flower) and rose (past tense of rise) are homonyms.