The title of the Beautiful English post, A Peculiar Sentence about a Peculiar Boy, is an example of the rhetorical device known as paragmenon : The repetition of a word or variations of a word within a short sentence.
Have you heard or read a paragmenon today?
Doesn't anyone know how to word a paragmenon by using the same word twice?
This was a day like all days.....
Give us this day our daily bread.
"Don't cross me," he said crossly at the crossing.
Someway, somehow, somebody has to stop me!
Posted by: Ann | June 13, 2007 at 09:43 AM
Nice, Ann!
Posted by: gail | June 14, 2007 at 05:57 PM