https://padlet.com/plara1/yxjab2m6cpwj en-us 2017-03-02 18:18:00 UTC 2017-05-17 05:28:47 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lightdecrease.png https://padlet.com/plara1/yxjab2m6cpwj/wish/157602531 Twist a cliché. Clichés make the world go round, and your job is to screw up their orbit. Ways to undermine clichés include taking them literally and reducing them to absurdity,]]> 2017-03-03 13:43:29 UTC https://padlet.com/plara1/yxjab2m6cpwj/wish/157602531 https://padlet.com/plara1/yxjab2m6cpwj/wish/157602862 Synecdoche: Swapping one thing for a collection.]]> 2017-03-03 13:44:42 UTC https://padlet.com/plara1/yxjab2m6cpwj/wish/157602862 https://padlet.com/plara1/yxjab2m6cpwj/wish/157602948 Asyndeton: Eliminates the conjunctions between phrases for poetic or emotional effect.]]> 2017-03-03 13:45:00 UTC https://padlet.com/plara1/yxjab2m6cpwj/wish/157602948 https://padlet.com/plara1/yxjab2m6cpwj/wish/157603018 Parelcon: the "like" figure transforms the usage of words by stripping them of meaning and using them as a rhetorical version of a musical rest]]> 2017-03-03 13:45:12 UTC https://padlet.com/plara1/yxjab2m6cpwj/wish/157603018 https://padlet.com/plara1/yxjab2m6cpwj/wish/157603144 Speak Around: substitutes a description for the proper name. “He Who Must Not Be Named” rather than, Voldemort. ]]> 2017-03-03 13:45:32 UTC https://padlet.com/plara1/yxjab2m6cpwj/wish/157603144 https://padlet.com/plara1/yxjab2m6cpwj/wish/157603200

Coyness: The “oh-you-shouldn’t-have” figure, its formal name is accismus. Cheapskates who let other pick up the tab tend to use the coyness figure. 

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