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Discrimination on the grounds of a person's accent.
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(rhetoric) Departing from the normal syntax of a series to increase its effect.
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(rhetoric) A work of adoxography.
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Alternative spelling of anacoluth [Synonym of anacoluthon]
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Alternative spelling of anacoluthons
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Alternative spelling of anacoloutha [(rhetoric) A non-reciprocal synonym; a word of meaning similar to a word but that cannot substitute for that word in all uses.]
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(grammar) A syntactic construction in which an element is followed by another that does not agree properly
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A word which forms a different word when spelled backwards.
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(grammar) The correspondence of a word or phrase with the genius of a language, as learned from the manner in which its words and phrases are ordinarily formed; similarity of derivative or inflectional processes.
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(linguistics) Imperative, as in the anankastic conditional.
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(rhetoric) Of or relating to an anastrophe; having an unusual word order.
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Exhibiting or relating to antanaclasis.
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Alternative spelling of anthimeria [(rhetoric) The use of a word from one word class or part of speech as if it were from another, in English typically the use of a noun as if it were a verb.]
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(rhetoric) The substitution of an epithet or title in place of a proper noun.
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Alternative form of antonomasia [(rhetoric) The substitution of an epithet or title in place of a proper noun.]
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(rhetoric) Pertaining to the rhetoric use of, or using, apostrophe (sudden, exclamatory dialogue).
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The state of being an aptonym.
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Aptly-named; with an apt name.
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(rhetoric) A stylistic scheme in which conjunctions such as "or" and "and" are deliberately omitted from a series of words, phrases, or clauses.
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A verbal behavior that has an organizing function; for example, grammatical and rhetorical sequences can be selected by the speaker so as to achieve a particular goal. This occurs because listeners are strongly affected by the composition of the discourse they are exposed to.
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(rhetoric) The use of a word of common or general signification for the name of a particular thing, as in "he has gone to town" for "he has gone to London".
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(rhetoric, obsolete) Arrangement of a series in ascending order.
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Bad spelling or punctuation, especially unintuitive spellings considered as a feature of a whole language or dialect.
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(rhetoric) A misapplication or overextension of figurative or analogical description; a wrongly applied metaphor or trope.
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(rhetoric) A descending order from best, greatest, etc. to worst, lowest, etc.
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(linguistics) Co-occurring with speech
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(linguistics) The relationship between cognates; the condition of sharing a common ancestor term in another language.
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(now chiefly linguistics) A cognate relationship.
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Synonym of connotative
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Alternative form of contronymy [The quality of being a contranym or including contranyms.]
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(linguistics) Sharing a common root.
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(linguistics) (of a language) No longer spoken.
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(rhetoric) The spelling out of alternatives, or presenting of either-or arguments that lead to a conclusion.
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(countable) An instance of this technique.
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(grammar, of a phrase or compound) Not having the same part of speech as any of its constituent words.
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A word which is identical or similar in both form and meaning to another word, and therefore appears to also be cognate (etymologically related) to it, but which is in fact unrelated.
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(linguistics) The situation where two or more forms appear in the same environment without a change in meaning, and without either one being considered incorrect.
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(linguistics) A type of ellipsis that occurs in the non-initial conjuncts of coordinate structures, and usually elides minimally a finite verb and further any non-finite verbs that are present. Example: "Some ate bread, and others rice."
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The use of one word or phrase when another is meant
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(linguistics) The situation where a person who knows two languages inappropriately transfers lexical items or structures from one to the other.
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Alternative form of cataphora [(linguistics, rhetoric) The use of a pronoun, or other linguistic unit, before the noun phrase to which it refers, sometimes used for rhetorical effect.]
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(rare) The use of literal expressions, as opposed to figurative; of clear, as opposed to obscure.
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(phonology) In Optimality Theory, universal features that languages prefer to keep unviolated.
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(rhetoric) A metonymic term to describe a type of synecdoche in which two parts of a thing, perhaps contrasting or complementary parts, are made to stand for the whole.
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(linguistics, uncountable) Symbolism that has no counterpart in speech.
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Abbreviation of metonymy. [(rhetoric) The use of a single characteristic or part of an object, concept or phenomenon to identify the entire object, concept, phenomenon or a related object.]
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(rhetoric) The use of a single characteristic or part of an object, concept or phenomenon to identify the entire object, concept, phenomenon or a related object.
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(linguistics) noun animate dependent
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(linguistics) The unsuccessful use by a language learner of a construct from his/her source language in the target language, such that the resulting utterance in the target language is incorrect.
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In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.
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(linguistics, countable) A nonce word.
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(rare) A linguistic phenomenon in which coordination and subordination (e.g. of conjunctions) are mixed or not distinguished.
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Alternative form of parablepsy [false vision]
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(palaeography) A circumstance in which a scribe miscopies text due to inadvertently looking to the side while copying, or accidentally skips over some of it.
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The confused or incomplete use of grammatical structures, found in certain forms of speech disturbance.
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(rhetoric, grammar) The juxtaposition of two or more identical or equivalent syntactic constructions, especially those expressing the same sentiment with slight modifications, introduced for rhetorical effect.
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Pertaining to a paraphrase.
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(psychology) A mistake, such as a slip of the tongue, that reveals a concealed thought or motive.
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(linguistics) Expressing a grammatical meaning (such as a tense) using a syntactic construction rather than morphological marking.
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(grammar) Characterized by periphrasis.
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(of a writing or speech) Of, or related to pleonasms.
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(rhetoric) The use of many conjunctions to achieve an overwhelming effect in a sentence.
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Simple utterances that might eventually develop into systematic speech.
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(linguistics) A set of things (e.g. blue things, round things) conceptualized by a child who is learning language, approximating a general concept of something.
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(linguistics) Having certain modal features.
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A subcategory of declarative memory, semantic memory stores general information such as names and facts.
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(semantics) A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary.
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(rhetoric, obsolete) antonomasia (use of a proper name to suggest a quality)
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By means of symbols or a symbol.
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Rare spelling of synathroesmus. [(rhetoric) Piling up of terms, especially adjectives, often as invective.]
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Alternative form of synaxarion. [(Christianity) A compilation of hagiographies corresponding roughly to the martyrology of the Roman Church.]
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Alternative form of synchysis [(poetics) A complicated, interlocking word-order pattern in early Latin verse, demonstrated by Virgil and his contemporaries.]
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(poetics) A complicated, interlocking word-order pattern in early Latin verse, demonstrated by Virgil and his contemporaries.
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(rare) Alternative spelling of synecdoche [(rhetoric) A figure of speech that uses the name of a part of something to represent the whole, or the whole to represent a part.]
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(rhetoric) A figure of speech that uses the name of a part of something to represent the whole, or the whole to represent a part.
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(rhetoric) The use of a synecdoche.
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Obsolete spelling of synecdoche [(rhetoric) A figure of speech that uses the name of a part of something to represent the whole, or the whole to represent a part.]
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(rare) Alternative spelling of synoecism [(Ancient Greece) The unification of towns, tribes etc. under one capital city or polis.]
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Alternative form of synedrion [An assembly that holds formal sessions.]
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Alternative form of synizesis [(poetry) A poetic figure of speech in which two consecutive vowel sounds in the same word are pronounced as a single phoneme so that certain words adhere to a particular poetic meter.]
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(information science, metadata) Synonym of synset
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(rhetoric) An apt arrangement of elements of a text, especially for euphony.
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(rhetoric) A set phrase linking two or more non-synonymous words by conjunction.
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Alternative spelling of synoecism [(Ancient Greece) The unification of towns, tribes etc. under one capital city or polis.]
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(countable) An expression that features tautology.
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(of words or phrases) metaphorical
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(linguistics) A kind of error where an utterance has not undergone the proper inversion, as in "*What she is eating?" for "What is she eating?".
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Relating to verbalism or form of expression.
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