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  2. 40+ Phrases You Can Use to Amp up Your Dirty Talk - AOL

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    The reverse is helpful, too: react appropriately to what your partner says. If something they said really turns you on, tell them that! Open communication is the key to the best dirty talk (shocker!).

  3. High rising terminal - Wikipedia

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    Empirically, one report proposes that HRT in American English and Australian English is marked by a high tone (high pitch or high fundamental frequency) beginning on the final accented syllable near the end of the statement (the terminal), and continuing to increase in frequency (up to 40%) to the end of the intonational phrase. [1]

  4. 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.

  5. Pleonasm - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] For example, consider the following English sentences: "I know you're coming." "I know that you're coming." In this construction, the conjunction that is optional when joining a sentence to a verb phrase with know. Both sentences are grammatically correct, but the word that is pleonastic in this case.

  6. Colorless green ideas sleep furiously - Wikipedia

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    Colorless green ideas sleep furiously was composed by Noam Chomsky in his 1957 book Syntactic Structures as an example of a sentence that is grammatically well-formed, but semantically nonsensical. The sentence was originally used in his 1955 thesis The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory and in his 1956 paper "Three Models for the ...

  7. Glossary of rhetorical terms - Wikipedia

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    Analogy – the use of a similar or parallel case or example to reason or argue a point. Anaphora – a succession of sentences beginning with the same word or group of words. Anastrophe – inversion of the natural word order. Anecdote – a brief narrative describing an interesting or amusing event.

  8. Was Donald Trump's historic sentence too harsh or too ... - AOL

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    Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., said on X that Trump’s sentence was “a joke and a disgrace." "This witch hunt and ruling,” Blackburn added, “was an insult to the American people."

  9. List of English palindromic phrases - Wikipedia

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    A palindrome is a word, number, phrase, or other sequence of symbols that reads the same backwards as forwards, such as the sentence: "A man, a plan, a canal – Panama". ". Following is a list of palindromic phrases of two or more words in the English language, found in multiple independent collections of palindromic phra