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  2. Emma Brooke - Wikipedia

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    A Superfluous Woman (1894) [2] Transition: A Novel (1895) [6] Life the Accuser (1896) The Confession of Stephen Whapshare (1898) The Engrafted Rose (1899) The Twins of Skirlaugh Hall (1903) The Poet's Child (1903) Susan Wooed and Susan Won (1905) Sir Elyot of the Woods (1907) The Story of Hauksgarth Farm (1909) The House of Robershaye (1912)

  3. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Words to watch

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    An article suffering from such language should be rewritten to correct the problem or, if an editor is unsure how best to make a correction, the article may be tagged with an appropriate template, such as {{Peacock term}}. Puffery is an example of positively loaded language; negatively loaded language should be avoided just as much. People ...

  4. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    For example, the phrase, "John, my best friend" uses the scheme known as apposition. Tropes (from Greek trepein, 'to turn') change the general meaning of words. An example of a trope is irony, which is the use of words to convey the opposite of their usual meaning ("For Brutus is an honorable man; / So are they all, all honorable men").

  5. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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    A famous example for lexical ambiguity is the following sentence: "Wenn hinter Fliegen Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen hinterher.", meaning "When flies fly behind flies, then flies fly in pursuit of flies." [40] [circular reference] It takes advantage of some German nouns and corresponding verbs being homonymous. While not noticeable ...

  6. Three Hours To Change Your Life - images.huffingtonpost.com

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    Three Hours To Change Your Life - Introductory excerpt from Your Best Year Yet! - Welcome I invite you to have your best year yet --- year after year --- for the rest of your life. The Best Year Yet experience is designed to reach the core of how you think and perform, and to empower you to new levels of personal effectiveness and fulfillment.

  7. List of feminist literature - Wikipedia

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    What Shall We Do With our Daughters? Superfluous Women and Other Lectures, Mary A. Livermore (1883) [96] The Iniquity of State Regulated Vice, Catherine Booth (1884) [62] "The Need of Liberal Divorce Laws" from the North American Review, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1884) [97] The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, Friedrich ...

  8. 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.

  9. Paraphrase - Wikipedia

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    For example, changing a complex sentence into two simpler sentences while maintaining the overall meaning falls into this category. Discourse-based changes are alterations that affect the larger discourse or text structure, such as reordering points in a paragraph or changing the way arguments are presented without altering the factual content.