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Circumlocution
Published by MsJacquiiC
Posted on 03-14-2011

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A roundabout wording, such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “twice five miles of fertile ground” (i.e., 10 miles) in “Kubla Khan.” Also known as periphrasis.


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