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He simply defined it as a rhetorical device involving a double meaning.
From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2024
The Oversight Board added that the excerpted poem was being deployed as a rhetorical device to warn about cycles of violence rather than to explicitly encourage such violence.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2022
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- literary device
- oratorical flourish
- persuasive technique
- argumentative tool
- linguistic strategy
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- plain speech
- matter-of-fact prose
- straightforward expression
- literalism
- unadorned language
