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  • 91hyperbole — noun the media hyperbole that accompanied their championship series Syn: exaggeration, overstatement, magnification, embroidery, embellishment, excess, overkill, rhetoric; informal purple prose, puffery Ant: understatement …

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  • 92rhetoric — noun 1) a form of rhetoric Syn: oratory, eloquence, command of language, way with words 2) empty rhetoric Syn: wordiness, verbosity, grandiloquence, bombast, pomposity, extravagant language …

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  • 93stem-wind|ing — «STEHM WYN dihng», adjective. 1. wound by turning a knob on the stem: »a stem winding watch. 2. U.S. Informal, Figurative. winding up the emotions; rousing; impassioned: »a stem winding orator. His sermons are a far cry from the stem winding… …

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  • 94literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …

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  • 95biblical literature — Introduction       four bodies of written works: the Old Testament writings according to the Hebrew canon; intertestamental works, including the Old Testament Apocrypha; the New Testament writings; and the New Testament Apocrypha.       The Old… …

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  • 96Woody Allen — Infobox actor name = Woody Allen imagesize = 240px caption = Woody Allen in concert in New York City, 2006 birthname = Allan Stewart Konigsberg birthdate = birth date and age|mf=yes|1935|12|1 location = Brooklyn, New York, U.S. yearsactive = 1950 …

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  • 97Alice Walker — (Oktober 2007) Alice Malsenior Walker (* 9. Februar 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia) ist eine US amerikanische Schriftstellerin und politische Aktivistin. International bekannt wurde sie vor allem als Autorin des Romans Die Farbe Lila, der 1983 mit dem …

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  • 98List of Emily Dickinson poems — This is a list of Emily Dickinson poems. There are 1,775 known poems that have been written by Dickinson. The poems are alphabetized by their first line. Punctuation, capitalization and even in some cases wording of the first lines may vary… …

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