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		notnaut on April 25, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You are what you read, even if you don't always re... Epanalepsis? Chiasmus? Why are all rhetorical devices given such arcane names?

riskable on April 25, 2024 | [–]

> arcane names

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

uoaei on April 25, 2024 | | [–]

Rhetoric was invented in Greece

sn9 on April 25, 2024 | | [–]

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

InSteady on April 25, 2024 | [–]

Camorepticus?

Scremaèlitude?

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

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