🔤 Merisms ✨

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kaseer ul azla'i bayan, tamamim, mukammal bayan, har do hissay, merisms

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📚noun

merisms

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DEFINITION

rhetorical devices where a whole is expressed by mentioning its constituent parts or opposing extremes

EXAMPLE SENTENCES

Linguists identified classical merisms like lock, stock, and barrel in ancient and modern literature today. Using poetic merisms like searching high and low allows writers to emphasize complete thoroughness in action. Biblical scholars analyze traditional merisms used in ancient texts to convey universal or absolute concepts. The speech relied on effective merisms to communicate that the policy covers both young and old. Understanding literary merisms helps students appreciate subtle figurative language structures in historical poetry.

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figures of speech synecdoches dualisms rhetorical pairs polarities