Figures of Speech Explained With Clips From ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’
Max Tohline has created an informative video that uses clips from Monty Python’s Flying Circus to illustrate the following figures of speech: paradiastole, eranorthosis, syncatabasis, grandiloquence, pleonasm, synonymia, auxesis, meiosis, paralipsis, paraprosdokia, as well as apheresis, apocope, and syncope.
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