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  2. 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

  3. 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.

  4. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    The combination of SVO order and use of auxiliary verbs often creates clusters of two or more verbs at the center of the sentence, such as he had hoped to try to open it. In most sentences, English marks grammatical relations only through word order. The subject constituent precedes the verb and the object constituent follows it.

  5. Colorless green ideas sleep furiously - Wikipedia

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    In the popular game of "Mad Libs", a chosen player asks each other player to provide parts of speech without providing any contextual information (e.g., "Give me a proper noun", or "Give me an adjective"), and these words are inserted into pre-composed sentences with a correct grammatical structure, but in which certain words have been omitted ...

  6. Passage (video game) - Wikipedia

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    Rohrer created all of the content, including the music, and the pixel art, which was made using the free software mtPaint. The final game was 2 megabytes large. The final game was 2 megabytes large. The visual presentation of the main character is loosely based on Rohrer himself, with the female character modeled on his wife Lauren.

  7. Wikipedia:Writing better articles - Wikipedia

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    All the sentences within a paragraph should revolve around the same topic. When the topic changes, a new paragraph should be started. Overly long paragraphs should be split up, as long as the cousin paragraphs keep the idea in focus. One-sentence paragraphs can be emphatic, and should be used sparingly.

  8. Telephone game - Wikipedia

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    The CBBC game show Copycats featured several rounds played in a Telephone format, in which each player on a team in turn had to interpret and recreate the mimed actions, drawing or music performed by the preceding person in line, with the points value awarded based on how far down the line the correct starting prompt had travelled before ...

  9. Pilcrow - Wikipedia

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    The first way to divide sentences into groups in Ancient Greek was the original παράγραφος [parágraphos], which was a horizontal line in the margin to the left of the main text. [7] As the paragraphos became more popular, the horizontal line eventually changed into the Greek letter Gamma ( Γ , γ ) and later into litterae ...