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Do people actually address their male child "Son" rather than a name, in real life English, or is this mainly a written English usage?

What do you call a sentence that reverses parts of the first clause in a second clause that makes sense, too?

Is a question with an obvious answer to ask another question rhetorical?

Using "who" twice, why?

Would 'Google' be a synecdoche or a metonymy of the internet and technology?

What figure(s) of speech or expression are in play here?

Sarcastic hyperbole?

How would Anglophones judge the rhetoric that was typical of 1600-1900?

Not quite "strawman" -- a word for stating a non-believed proposition?

The name of the rhetorical device of reporting the use of vulgar language without quoting it?

What's the word for using alternative descriptions in place of a name?

What linguistic feature would I draw upon to explain this?

What is the rhetorical device that modifies a famous phrase, similar to antithesis?

Term for rhetorical device of claiming not to intend what you are about to do?

Ending a sentence with "has it" or "did it" in a sarcastic statement, what's this called?

What is the name of this rhetorical device involving a change of word order?

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Meaning of “take a knee”

Term for figure of speech in: 'Life is awesome, I confess'

What is the rhetorical device in this type of sentence?

Give me an example of an apophasis

Do people actually address their male child "Son" rather than a name, in real life English, or is this mainly a written English usage?

What do you call a sentence that reverses parts of the first clause in a second clause that makes sense, too?

Is a question with an obvious answer to ask another question rhetorical?

Using "who" twice, why?

Would 'Google' be a synecdoche or a metonymy of the internet and technology?

What figure(s) of speech or expression are in play here?

Sarcastic hyperbole?

How would Anglophones judge the rhetoric that was typical of 1600-1900?

Not quite "strawman" -- a word for stating a non-believed proposition?

The name of the rhetorical device of reporting the use of vulgar language without quoting it?

What's the word for using alternative descriptions in place of a name?

What linguistic feature would I draw upon to explain this?

What is the rhetorical device that modifies a famous phrase, similar to antithesis?

Term for rhetorical device of claiming not to intend what you are about to do?

Ending a sentence with "has it" or "did it" in a sarcastic statement, what's this called?

What is the name of this rhetorical device involving a change of word order?