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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 72. Chapters: Euphemism, Eponym, Figure of speech, Metaphor, Dysphemism, Spoonerism, Simile, Synecdoche, Double entendre, Antithesis, Catachresis, Chiasmus, Elision, Monologue, Pleonasm, Social trap, Zeugma, Pissing contest, Epenthesis, Aporia, Sarcasm, Anaphora, Pathetic fallacy, Adynaton, Mess of pottage, Just-so story, Rhetorical operations, Prosthesis, Flying pig, Herd mentality, Polysyndeton, Metalepsis, Tmesis, Code word, Paraprosdokian, Asyndeton, Apocope, Dodo bird verdict, Pars pro toto, Merism, Star Wars Day, Wellerism, Circumlocution, L'esprit de l'escalier, See a man about a dog, Hysteron proteron, Antanaclasis, Prosopopoeia, Shadow of the Leader, Trope, Anadiplosis, Pollyanna principle, Paradiastole, Lone wolf, Hypallage, Scheme, Polyptoton, Flummery, Syncope, Difrasismo, Epistrophe, Love-hate relationship, Roger Dodger, Metaplasm, Personification, Synesis, Rest of the world, Climax, Sandancer, Bromide, Synaeresis, Apheresis, Cataphora, Polite fiction, Totum pro parte, Synalepha, Corpsing, Epanalepsis, Prophetic perfect tense, Diacope, Correption, Hypocatastasis, Wallflower, Epanorthosis, Robust decision, Tricolon, Above my paygrade, Liming, Occupatio, Antiphrasis, Negative equality nostalgia, Phrop, Procatalepsis, Prolepsis, Mokita, Six Feet Under, Aphorismus, Breaking point, Weak mindedness, Accismus, Antanagoge, TOTimal, Paromoiosis, Ploce, Parachesis, Praegnans constructio, Parasyntheton, Palilogy, Classification. Excerpt: Euphemism is a substitution for an expression that may offend or suggest something unpleasant to the receiver, using instead an agreeable or less offensive expression, or to make it less troublesome for the speaker. Some euphemisms are intended to amuse, while others are created to mislead. When a phrase is used as a euphemism, it often becomes a metaphor whose literal meaning is dropped. Euphe...
