aporia

an expression of real or pretended doubt or uncertainty especially for rhetorical effect

the celebrated aporia whereby a Cretan declares all Cretans to be liars

by SonicLover8000 December 03, 2017

Pleonasm

the use of more words than those necessary to denote mere sense : redundancy

Instead of getting straight to the central idea, she used pleonasm because she thought more words made it better

by SonicLover8000 February 06, 2019

antonomasia

the substitution of an epithet or title for a proper name

the Bard for Shakespeare is an example of antonomasia

by SonicLover8000 December 03, 2017

CallMeCarson

Bandkids' Idle

hey bro do you use reddit? do you watch callmecarson? oof you don't? downdooted!

by SonicLover8000 October 22, 2020

Hec

When you're Christian and too lazy to type heck

hec, i can't believe he would hecing do that! Hecing hec!

by SonicLover8000 November 29, 2017

syllepsis

the use of a word in the same grammatical relation to two adjacent words in the context with one literal and the other metaphorical in sense

He carried a strobe light and the responsibility for the lives of his men is an example of a syllepsis, with two different meanings for the word "carried"

by SonicLover8000 December 03, 2017

Jeremy

Guy who probably could not behave in class for more than 3 minutes. Statistically the most likely name to be arrested.

Teacher: Jeremy! Sit down!

by SonicLover8000 January 27, 2023