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syllepsis
noun
(syl-lep-sis)
the use of a word to modify or govern syntactically two or more words with only one of which it formally agrees in gender, number, or case
syllepsis
noun
(syl-lep-sis)
the use of a word in the same grammatical relation to two adjacent words in the context with one literal and the other metaphorical in sense
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hyperbaton
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rhetorical device
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figure of speech
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agnomination
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hypallage
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metalepsis
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polysyndeton
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annomination
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paronomasia
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laconism
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metrical foot
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synizesis
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dipody
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polyseme
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syndeton
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tapinosis
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epitrite
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epanadiplosis
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paronym
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choriambus
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choriamb
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disyllable
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litotes
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proceleusmatic
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plural
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catachresis
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sememe
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meronymy
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zeugma
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dispondee
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metonymy
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noun phrase
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common noun
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diaphonic
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morphophoneme
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apocopation
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function word
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minimal pair
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paragoge
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concrete noun
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apocope
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anacoluthia
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ideophone
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simile
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syllabize
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content word
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paradiastole
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trisyllable
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set phrase
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diiambus
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ditrochee
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hendiadys
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glyconian
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adnominal
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polysyllabicity
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hysteron proteron
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holonymy
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briticism
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linguistic relation
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prolepsis
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adnoun
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antiphrasis
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anthimeria
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dorism
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nounize
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metaplasm
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semantic relation
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mass noun
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verb phrase
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language unit
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syllabogram
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onomatope
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count noun
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anaptyxis
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aposiopesis
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inclusive or
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anacoluthon
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homoioptoton
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onomastician
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relative clause
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amphibrach
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orismology
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major form class
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hypercatalexis
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septisyllable
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feminine rhyme
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punnology
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demonstrative pronoun
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hendecasyllable
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orthoepist
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epiploce
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verbal noun
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pedalian
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malapropism
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onym
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acatalectic
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asynartete
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asyndeton
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syllepsis
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