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(rhetoric) One who composes adoxography.
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One who rewrites history to their own advantage or tells self-aggrandizing falsehoods.
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(literature) An adjective based on an authors' name.
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A style of writing that favors brevity and simplicity.
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A passage of writing or dialogue that uses vivid and lyrical metaphors or similes, characteristic of the work of writer Raymond Chandler.
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A colloquial word or phrase, colloquialism
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Characteristically colloquial or informal language; plain speech
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A colloquial word or phrase; a common spoken expression.
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A person who uses colloquial words or phrases.
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(rare, humorous) A connoisseur of humorous names.
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(slang) A person who is obsessed with fixing grammatical errors.
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A word or phrase used in conversation; a colloquialism.
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The use of obscure (or private) language
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(chiefly historical) Someone skilled in dialectics: someone able to arrive at logical conclusions through reasoned argument.
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(Of a literary work) written in dialogue.
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A writer of dissertations.
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Incomprehensible language.
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A constructed language used as both an international auxiliary language and a shorthand system.
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Of or pertaining to elocution or to public speaking; rhetorical
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Someone who writes an epigram (any meanings)
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One who writes in an affectedly pointed style.
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The writer of an epilogue.
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(ancient drama) The second part of a play, in which the action begins.
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(narratology) A series of events forming the basis of a story or narrative.
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(countable, rare) A dictionary with contrived entries.
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(literature) The perspective through which a narrative is presented.
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(sociolinguistics) Imitation of such resyllabification due to perceived prestige or correctness.
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(idiomatic) One or more people who make negative comments, which are usually unsolicited and unwanted, concerning the correctness of someone's English usage.
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(informal) Language that is rendered confusing by many initialisms.
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Someone who uses jargon, especially to an excessive degree.
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(rare, sometimes capitalized) A person who uses a great deal of jargon when speaking or writing, especially one who seems to relish such a manner of expression.
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Characteristic of jargon.
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Typified by jargon; difficult to understand.
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The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words.
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A method of manipulating words so that the layman would find it hard to understand, such as pig Latin, gibberish, etc.
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Which is used in writing (of a language or dialect).
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One who is obsessed with words.
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One who utters malapropisms.
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Relating to a monologue.
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Relating to a monologue.
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One who studies narratology.
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The author of a palinode.
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A short narrative illustrating a lesson (usually religious/moral) by comparison or analogy.
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A writer of paradoxography.
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Alternative form of parœmiographer [A writer of proverbs.]
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The collection of proverbs.
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One who studies proverbs.
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A writer of a periegesis.
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A crafter of phrases; one who pens bombast or rhetoric.
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(derogatory) Synonym of phrasemonger
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Alternative spelling of poetic licence [Any departure from convention or from factual accuracy taken by a writer to achieve a desired effect.]
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Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.
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A manner, quality, expression, style, phrase or word that is prosaic.
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A prosaic or commonplace person.
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Of or pertaining to prose; prosaic.
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(obsolete) One who writes prose.
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In terms of prose, as opposed to poetry.
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(of speech or writing) Unpoetic; dull and unimaginative.
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Of, resembling, or expressed as a proverb, cliché, fable, or fairy tale.
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One who makes much use of proverbs in speech or writing.
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Of or relating to proverbs; proverbial.
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A text that is attributed with a false author
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One who creates pseudographs; a forger or counterfeiter.
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The language of the narrator in the stories of Damon Runyon: a mixture of formal speech and colorful slang, usually in the present tense and devoid of contractions.
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(countable) A particular variety of slang; the slang used by a particular group.
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The world of slang; slang words and expressions collectively; the use of slang.
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Characteristic of a story; storylike
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A literary device that seeks to describe this process by means of a long, unstructured soliloquy.
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(literature) Literature produced in order to promote a cause or serve a rhetorical purpose that the writing itself never makes explicit. These purposes are typically social, political, or moral.
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(rare) One who coins words.
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A technique in which the nature of the words used become part of the subject of the work, such as puns, phonetic mix-ups such as spoonerisms, obscure words and meanings, clever rhetorical excursions, oddly formed sentences, and telling character names.
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(informal) Someone interested in words.
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A humorous play on words; such plays on words collectively.
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One who uses words skillfully.
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One who is skilled at using words; a wordsmith.
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