THE GAME OF THE NAME

"What figure of speech is an emphatic repetition of a word?"

Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition!---King John, 2.1.561


Gradation; repeating anadiplosis:

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,/ And every tongue brings in a several tale,/ And every tale condemns me for a villain.

What? With a tongue in your tale? And that leads to villany? Oh the villany of answering your own question with "anadisplosis."

A pox upon the plosives the preceding poster has purported to post. Perhaps the proceding can upon this proposed problem expound.

A. Alliteration

Q. What word describes innocuous but believed deadly?

"What word describes innocuous but believed deadly"

Parados/Aphrodisiac


Is tautology - the same as pleonasm?

Let yourself go Tryagain or get a grip, nocebo is the innocuous believed deadly.

The metathesis in parados is aphrodisiacal however this is not the recreational pharmacology thread.

No, tautology is not the same as pleonasm you'd need to rephrase the question.

Simple question, what word describes 'shimmering' or a 'changeable lustre' that might be confused with chat? (Clue: someone on A2K has this sobriquet).

"Simple question, what word describes 'shimmering' or a 'changeable lustre' that might be confused with chat? (Clue: someone on A2K has this sobriquet)."

Easy answer: Solipsister

Send BIG prize to usual address.

Scesis onamaton: A maid in conversation chaste, in speech mild, in countenance cheerful, in behavior modest ...[etc.] - Yea or nay?