Figures of music and repetition express ideas rhythmically, symmetrically and memorably.
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And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before - E.A. Poe |
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One swallow does not a summer make, nor one fine day - Aristotle |
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And that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth - Abraham Lincoln
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I came, I saw, I conquered - Julius Caesar
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This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,
This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings - Shakespeare |
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Repetition is the mother of memory - Roman proverb |
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Shorter words…appeal with greater force - Winston Churchill |
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Liberté, égalité, fraternité |