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Ploce

By Mark Morgan Ford · · 1 min read
(PLOH-chay), from the Ancient Greek for “weaving” or “braiding,” is a rhetorical device – the repetition or inversion of a word or phrase for emphasis. Examples: * “I am stuck on Band-Aid, and Band-Aid’s stuck on me.” * “I am what I am.” * “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.”
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