Aristotle's Guide to Soul Bending

Aristotle's Guide to Soul Bending

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The most underrated figure of speech
Soldiers used it going into battle. I've used it going into a workout.
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Go ahead, drop the towel!
Impress your coworkers with these sexy new protoclichés.
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The figure Ariana Grande uses to play coy
Its official name: the accismus. I call it the Oh-you-shouldn’t-have figure.
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The addictive figure that sold us all on junk food
Advertisers rely on the paean, a candy-coated, highly addictive war cry. You can use it to stop eating junk!
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To write a speech, write a phrase.
Your audience won’t remember your speech, but they’ll leave with your thought.
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Brain training with an ex-parrot
The synonymia is a figure that can temporarily liberate us from our smartphones.
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Magic in the Great Green Room
You will find almost all of rhetoric's power in this one children’s book.
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Meet the Feghoot, a pun-enabled shaggy dog
Tell a story that makes bogs dark and Britannia waive the rules.
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Instead of a humblebrag, try an honorflip.
The precarious prevalence of the portmanteau, a device that sends words packing.
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That’s just, like, a figure of speech, man.
It’s called, y’know, a parelcon, and it really brings a sentence together.
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Raw-Dogging: The idiom that only a Y chromosome could have written.
I mean, would a woman think of raw-dogging as a challenge Or call it “raw-dogging?”
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This Figure Has a Power We Can Measure
If only you and I could pronounce it.
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