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parusia
noun
A figure of speech by which the present tense is used instead of the past or the future, as in the animated narration of past events or the prediction of future ones
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parusia
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figure of speech
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indicative mood
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active voice
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hypallage
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future perfect
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narratory
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present perfect
,
protactic
,
rhetorical device
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present participle
,
perfective aspect
,
extradictionary
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stichomythia
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tralation
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morology
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narration
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modal auxiliary
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epanadiplosis
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perfect tense
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narrative
,
hysteron proteron
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animateness
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antiphrasis
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give voice
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anecdotist
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tralatition
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epiplexis
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pauciloquy
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past perfect
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verbal noun
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subtonic
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foretime
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homoioptoton
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imperfective aspect
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dead metaphor
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epiploce
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fatiloquent
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epyllion
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euhemerize
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set phrase
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hyperbaton
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interrogative mood
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tapinosis
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heroic verse
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demonstrative pronoun
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brachyology
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imperfect tense
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vision statement
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preterient
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expressive style
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literary composition
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wellerism
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anthimeria
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tropology
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grecism
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anacoluthon
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verbalist
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sound out
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epibole
,
overword
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semimute
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tropist
,
fish story
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teutonism
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adposition
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foreholding
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cacozelia
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indirect speech
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inanimation
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dramatic irony
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metaplasm
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perlocution
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cognitive process
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verb phrase
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character reference
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epanorthosis
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language unit
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anacoluthia
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hearsal
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syllabism
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transanimate
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volitive
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paragoge
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kyriology
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heterophemy
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echoism
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conversationism
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antimetathesis
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laconism
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representational process
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enantiosis
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interanimate
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charactery
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rhopalic
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bovarism
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cinematise
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anacoenosis
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function word
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lifesome
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multiloquy
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parusia
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