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  2. Heterogram (literature) - Wikipedia

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    For example, a word where every featured letter appears twice, like "Shanghaiings", might be called a pair isogram, [8] a second-order isogram, [2] or a 2-isogram. [ 3 ] A perfect pangram is an example of a heterogram, with the added restriction that it uses all the letters of the alphabet.

  3. List of forms of word play - Wikipedia

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    Pangram: a sentence which uses every letter of the alphabet at least once; Tautogram: a phrase or sentence in which every word starts with the same letter; Caesar shift: moving all the letters in a word or sentence some fixed number of positions down the alphabet; Techniques that involve semantics and the choosing of words

  4. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    Consonance: repetition of consonant sounds, most commonly within a short passage of verse. Correlative verse: matching items in two sequences. Diacope: repetition of a word or phrase with one or two intervening words. Elision: omission of one or more letters in speech, making it colloquial. Enallage: wording ignoring grammatical rules or ...

  5. Acrostic - Wikipedia

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    Relatively simple acrostics may merely spell out the letters of the alphabet in order; such an acrostic may be called an 'alphabetical acrostic' or abecedarius.These acrostics occur in the Hebrew Bible in the first four of the five chapters of the Book of Lamentations, in the praise of the good wife in Proverbs 31:10-31, and in Psalms 9-10, 25, 34, 37, 111, 112, 119 and 145. [4]

  6. 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 .

  7. Epanadiplosis - Wikipedia

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    Epanadiplosis is a figure of repetition affecting syntactic position (the order of words in the sentence). [2] For César Chesneau Dumarsais, the figure appears “when, of two correlative propositions, one begins and the other ends with the same word”, [3] or when, according to Henri Suhamy, [4] only two propositions are involved.

  8. How a single sentence — and a tennis metaphor — can save ...

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    Well, there is not a single feeling word in there,” Robin says. “Then what you've done is you're over the net. Unless I say I don't care, then you're making up a story based on my behavior.”

  9. Word painting - Wikipedia

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    Each repetition of "rise" is a semitone higher than the last, making this an especially overt example of word-painting. [7] "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen includes another example of word painting. In the line "It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall and the major lift, the baffled king composing hallelujah," the lyrics signify ...