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polyptoton?




Epanalepsis?

Chiasmus?

Why are all rhetorical devices given such arcane names?


> arcane names

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


Rhetoric was invented in Greece


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


Camorepticus?

Scremaèlitude?

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




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