Smart Blogger

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Have you come across the term “tautology” lately and wondered what it is? Lots of popular phrases are tautologies. In this post we’ll look at a bunch of tautology examples and dissect them so you can spot them a mile away. What Is A Tautology? In literary terms, a tautology , is simply repeating oneself.

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Grammarly

MAY 3, 2023

For example, double negatives are syntactic pleonasms. “I I don’t see why not” is an example of syntactic pleonasm since the same thing could easily be expressed in one word: “Sure.” For example, a menu that offers a “blended smoothie” is also, inadvertently, offering a pleonasm. One of these devices is pleonasm.

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Grammarly

JANUARY 16, 2023

For example, throughout the Harry Potter series, Lord Voldemort is referred to as He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. For example, in George Orwell’s Animal Farm , the pigs who run the farm steal food from the other animals: For the time being it has been found necessary to make a readjustment of rations. It is the opposite of concision.

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Smart Blogger

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

But whether it’s a familiar friend or an idiosyncratic interloper, each and every device comes with a lovingly hand-crafted definition and an enlightening example, carefully curated by yours truly. Graceful and clever use of alliteration (not, ahem, like the example above) can create a pleasant musicality to writing.

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Moz

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The example that Danny Sullivan gave online, that I think is a really great example, is if someone is experiencing the soap opera effect on their TV. A delicious example of how salience and entities work. Going back to the example of "What is the best temperature to bake chocolate chip cookies at?" It does depend.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Take this blog, for example. With the autograph example, the piece of paper they just put their name on became a commodity the moment they did, but they don’t expect to get a cut of any profit should it be sold. I think many bloggers – Copyblogger is a good example – spoil readers with top-notch stuff at times.

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