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
He carried a strobe light and the responsibility for the lives of his men is an example of a syllepsis, with two different meanings for the word "carried"
the use of more words than those necessary to denote mere sense : redundancy
Instead of getting straight to the central idea, she used pleonasm because she thought more words made it better
Guy who probably could not behave in class for more than 3 minutes. Statistically the most likely name to be arrested.
Bandkids' Idle
hey bro do you use reddit? do you watch callmecarson? oof you don't? downdooted!
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When you're Christian and too lazy to type heck
hec, i can't believe he would hecing do that! Hecing hec!
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the substitution of an epithet or title for a proper name
the Bard for Shakespeare is an example of antonomasia
an expression of real or pretended doubt or uncertainty especially for rhetorical effect
the celebrated aporia whereby a Cretan declares all Cretans to be liars