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by teekert 791 days ago
If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you will learn the things you never knew you never knew.
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But can you paint with all the colors of the wind?

In all seriousness, I liked that line you quoted in the song. I wonder if there is a literary term for that repetition. It's not alliteration I don't think as the words themselves repeat.

Actually, it's not really repetition, since she's talking about the things you didn't even know were unknown to you.
polyptoton?
Epanalepsis?

Chiasmus?

Why are all rhetorical devices given such arcane names?

> arcane names

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

Rhetoric was invented in Greece
I think they're just Greek because we got them from the Greeks.
Camorepticus?

Scremaèlitude?

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

Overspecialize, and you breed in weakness. It's slow death.