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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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