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Though the term initially applied to tightrope walking, [citation needed] in the 19th century, a form of performance art including circus acts began to use the term as well. In the late 19th century, tumbling and other acrobatic and gymnastic activities became competitive sport in Europe. Acrobatics has often served as a subject for fine art.
Govindas forming a human pyramid to reach the Dahi Handi in Hiranandani Gardens, Mumbai. Human pyramid by the Otago Dancers, at an Otago Highlanders game, May 2012.. A human pyramid is an acrobatic formation of three or more people in which two or more people support a tier of higher people, who in turn may support other, higher tiers of people.
Antanaclasis: a form of pun in which a word is repeated in two different senses. [16] Anthimeria: transformation of a word of a certain word class to another word class: such as a noun for a verb and vice versa. [17] Anthropomorphism: ascribing human characteristics to something that is not human, such as an animal or a god (see zoomorphism).
Adianoeta – a phrase carrying two meanings: an obvious meaning and a second, more subtle and ingenious one (more commonly known as double entendre). Alliteration – the use of a series of two or more words beginning with the same letter. Amphiboly – a sentence that may be interpreted in more than one way due to ambiguous structure.
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.
For years, people asked Josh Shaffer about the acrobatic bike rider who was once a downtown attraction and documentary star. So Josh went looking for answers. What happened to the ‘No-Hand King’?
Tumbling – Gymnastics discipline in which participants perform a series of acrobatic skills down a 25 metres (82 ft) long sprung track. Water skiing – Surface water sport in which an individual is pulled behind a boat or a cable ski installation over a body of water, skimming the surface on two skis or one ski.
McDormand ended her speech with two words: Inclusion rider. People on Twitter scrambled to find an answer, with some even speculating she might have meant "inclusion writer" or "inclusion, write her."