Devices, motifs, and clichés

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\nA literary trope is an artistic effect realized with figurative language – word, phrase, image – such as a rhetorical figure. In editorial practice, a trope is \"a substitution of a word or phrase by a less literal word or phrase\". Semantic change has expanded the definition of the literary term trope to also describe a writer's usage of commonly recurring or overused literary techniques and rhetorical devices, motifs, and clichés in a work of creative literature.

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{"fact":"A cat usually has about 12 whiskers on each side of its face.","length":61}

{"slip": { "id": 13, "advice": "If you're feeling tired or anxious, a pint of water will almost always make you feel better."}}

{"fact":"Cats' hearing stops at 65 khz (kilohertz); humans' hearing stops at 20 khz.","length":75}

{"fact":"In an average year, cat owners in the United States spend over $2 billion on cat food.","length":86}

{"slip": { "id": 146, "advice": "Today, do not use the words \"Kind of\", \"Sort of\" or \"Maybe\". It either is or it isn't."}}

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Pia Miranda is an Australian actress. Her career was launched with her role in the 2000 feature film Looking for Alibrandi, an Australian film based on the novel of the same name by Melina Marchetta. She is also known for her roles as Karen Oldman in Neighbours (1998–1999), Jodie Spiteri in Wentworth (2015), and Jen in Mustangs FC (2017–2020), as well as winning Australian Survivor in 2019.

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{"slip": { "id": 156, "advice": "Life is short enough, don't race to the finish."}}

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2 Broadway is an office building at the south end of Broadway, near Bowling Green Park, in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City. The 32-story building, designed by Emery Roth & Sons and constructed from 1958 to 1959, contains offices for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). 2 Broadway serves as the headquarters for some of the MTA's subsidiary agencies.

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