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wellerism
noun
()
a comparison comprising a well-known quotation followed by a facetious sequel
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wellerism
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antiphrasis
,
rhetorical device
,
figure of speech
,
set phrase
,
hypallage
,
conversationism
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pauciloquy
,
hysteron proteron
,
hyperbaton
,
epanadiplosis
,
extradictionary
,
falsism
,
morology
,
epanorthosis
,
echoism
,
subtonic
,
expressive style
,
overword
,
multiloquy
,
anacoluthon
,
heterophemy
,
perlocution
,
verbalist
,
epithesis
,
present participle
,
tralation
,
give voice
,
tropology
,
cacozelia
,
witzelsucht
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demonstrative pronoun
,
paradiastole
,
aphrasia
,
dramatic irony
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parusia
,
illocution
,
subvocalize
,
anacoenosis
,
brachyology
,
anacoluthia
,
phrase
,
ecphonesis
,
humorism
,
epiplexis
,
verb phrase
,
amphigory
,
altiloquent
,
indicative mood
,
paragoge
,
biverbal
,
dulciloquy
,
holophrasis
,
hispanism
,
discourser
,
sound out
,
comitative
,
function word
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homoioptoton
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noun phrase
,
verbal noun
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antimetathesis
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platitudinize
,
laconism
,
language unit
,
verbigeration
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grecism
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tropist
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laconize
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misword
,
anlaut
,
indefinite pronoun
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dead metaphor
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enantiosis
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paronym
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obsoletism
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auslaut
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sinicism
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syllabism
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tralatition
,
dysphemia
,
proverbialism
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euhemerize
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personal pronoun
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paraleipsis
,
briticism
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farand
,
hapax legomenon
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tapinosis
,
dog latin
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amphigoric
,
concrete noun
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adposition
,
content word
,
ideophone
,
main clause
,
active voice
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versicular
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afterwit
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assonate
,
relative clause
,
wellerism
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