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Does anyone know if there are terms in rhetoric for the kinds of structures illustrated below? 1. Birds of a feather gather no moss. 2. What's the difference between Donald Trump and a bee? One is fat, orange, likes to sting people and nobody wants it around. And the other is a bee. "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson. | ||
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Found the first one https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dundrearyism "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson. | |||
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Apparently there are 2 eponyms from Lord Dundreary. One is the Dundrearyism, and another are dundrearies, which are a particular style of facial hair. | |||
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