You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it

Re:You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it by teekert on Thursday April 25, 2024 @05:58AM (#40155495)

If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you will learn the things you never knew you never knew.

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Re:You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it by 7thaccount on Thursday April 25, 2024 @06:42AM (#40155771)

But can you paint with all the colors of the wind?

In all seriousness, I liked that line you quoted in the song. I wonder if there is a literary term for that repetition. It's not alliteration I don't think as the words themselves repeat.

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Re:You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it by nuclearnice1 on Thursday April 25, 2024 @07:44AM (#40156248)

polyptoton?

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Re:You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it by notnaut on Thursday April 25, 2024 @09:30AM (#40157320)

Epanalepsis?

Chiasmus?

Why are all rhetorical devices given such arcane names?

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Re:You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it by riskable on Thursday April 25, 2024 @09:45AM (#40157521)

> arcane names

That's why they're magic! If people used these words every day they'd end up starting fires or summoning demons.

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Re:You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it by uoaei on Thursday April 25, 2024 @09:34AM (#40157374)

Rhetoric was invented in Greece

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Re:You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it by InSteady on Thursday April 25, 2024 @01:15PM (#40160315)

Camorepticus?

Scremaèlitude?

We're just making up words at this point, right?

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Re:You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it by sn9 on Thursday April 25, 2024 @03:46PM (#40162131)

I think they're just Greek because we got them from the Greeks.

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Re:You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it by ceravis on Thursday April 25, 2024 @09:32AM (#40157349)

Or possibly antanaclasis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antanaclasis

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Re:You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it by oefnak on Friday April 26, 2024 @12:48AM (#40166033)

Actually, it's not really repetition, since she's talking about the things you didn't even know were unknown to you.

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Re:You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it by Symmetry on Thursday April 25, 2024 @12:51PM (#40159913)

Overspecialize, and you breed in weakness. It's slow death.

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Re:You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it by consf on Friday April 26, 2024 @03:18PM (#40172967)

Pocahontas...

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