TROPS AND SCHEMES

Definition of Anthimeria

Anthimeria (also known as antimeria) is the usage of a word in a new grammatical form, most often the usage of a noun as a verb. Anthimeria is often used in everyday conversation as a form of slang.

What is verbing or denominalization?

To verb a noun means to use an ordinary noun as a verb in a sentence. One of the most inventive aspects of invention-friendly English is verbing, the denominalization of nouns into verbs. It is often considered informal.

Less common shifts are noun to adjective (S.J. Perlman's 'Beauty Part'), adjective to noun (the Wicked Witch's 'I'll get you, my pretty') and adverb to verb (to down a drink).

ANT(H)IMERIA

The most common form of anthimeria is the use of a noun as if it were a verb. Example: I can keyboard that article this afternoon. (The noun "keyboard" is used as a verb).

What make of car do you drive? Toyota? (brand, marca); to book a hotel room; rainwater can be used to water gardens and trees.

If you shower someone with compliments when they lose weight, how will you be able to be supportive when/if they gain the weight back? (deshacerse en elogios)

mother (verbo): 1. in the sense of give birth to: She had dreamed of mothering a large family. 2. pamper, spoil, overprotect: Don't mother me!; the go-ahead (authorization), a dropout (s.o. who left school, or competition)

Less common: 1. adjective to noun (the Wicked Witch's "I'll get you, my pretty") and adverb to verb (to down a drink); 2. Don't “A-ha!” me. I'm happy to discuss tax policy outside of this article, more than happy, but I'm trying to make a point. (Aha, so you were the one who phoned me!)

It was an important step towards bettering relations between the two countries.(to improve sth)

Magic Johnson’s average score of 96 has never been bettered. (to achieve a better result than someone or something).

Anthimeria in Advertising

1. Let your fingers do the walking. (symbol of the "The Yellow Pages")

One of the most familiar and well-known symbols in the world is the famous “Walking Fingers” symbol of the Yellow Pages. Surprisingly, neither the symbol nor the Yellow Pages name are protected by copyright or federal trademark registration.

2. "Let's Movie," In the slogan for Turner Classic Movies.

3. Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later; A problem is a chance for you to do your best; Do your best and keep learning, that's what I believe in; Like what you do, and then you will do your best; It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway; My father taught me not to overthink things, that nothing will ever be perfect, so just keep moving and do your best; Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

My father taught me not to overthink things, that nothing will ever be perfect, so just keep moving and do your best.
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Like what you do, and then you will do your best.
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4. If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. M. Monroe. (as unpleasant, bad, or unsuccessful as it is possible for her to be).

5. Talk the talk, walk the walk. Also, Don't talk the talk if you can't walk the walk. (Supporting what you say, not just with words, but also through action)
I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies. Julia Roberts

6. I'm down for adventure and up for anything (1. to accept or agree to something, 2. availa-ble for.); I'm down for anything.

7. I'm a homebody / home-lover, really, when it comes down to it. (casero, hogareño)
When it / you comes (right) down to it or when you come down to it for emphasis, when you are giving a general statement or conclusion. (after all is said and done, in the end, bottom line is, in the last analysis, to sum it all, al final, en ultima instancia)

I'm a homebody, really, when it comes down to it.
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8. It's a no-brainer for me that at some point our cars will have the ability to drive themselves. (something such as a decision that is very easy or obvious: The decision was a complete no-brainer.

9. Success is never getting to the bottom of your to-do list.

A. a doer (a go-getter, a mover, a mover and shaker (slang): emprendedor, pers. dinamica), a maker (one who manufactures, fabricante), a watcher (onlooker, spectator); a taker: How about a game of soccer? Any takers? * a talker (who talks a lot), a big talker (a bragger, a boaster, a know-it-all), a downer (2) vs an upper slang (drug: amphetamine), a tranquillizer (calming drug, sedative), a walker (a pedestrian),

Jaguar is now the biggest car maker in Britain.

B. a mind(-)reader (psychic, fortune-teller, seer); a time / life(-)saver; a troublemaker; a decision(-)maker (manager), dream(-)maker, a film-maker (a movie director), a holidaymaker, (tourist, person on vacation), a policymaker (lawmaker, legislator), a peacemaker (sb who settles disputes), a shoemaker; Don't be a Monday hater!, a risk(-)taker, a wrongdoer / lawbreaker (criminal, offender), a heartbreaker (a good looking person), a breadwinner (provider), a motherfucker (also sth regarded as unpleasant, or frustrating, a screenwriter (One who writes screenplays, script in theatre), a blockbuster (very successful and popular) a streetwalker (a prostitute), a safe-cracker, a storyteller (author, teller of tales), a shareholder (stock owner),

There's two kinds of people my friend. Those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig. (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)

There's the watchers and there's the doers and the watchers will always criticize the doers because the watchers will never do anything themselves.

There's two kinds of people in this world when you boil it all down. You got your talkers and you got your doers. Most people are just talkers, all they do is talk. But when it is all said and done, it's the doers that change this world.

How about a game of soccer? Any takers?

Searching online is no longer “searching.” Now we “Google.” (and we blog)

There is simply too much corruption, too much money available for the taking. (see the asking)

These Boots Are Made for Walking (by Nancy Sinatra): Yeah, you keep lyin’ when you oughta be truthin’; You keep samin’ when you oughta be a changin’ Now, what’s right is right but you ain’t been right yet.(in Songs)

Sinatra’s song has invented verbs like “truthing” to mirror lying and “saming” to mirror changing.

You won't go. And that's final.
used to show that you are certain you will not change your decision about something:
This woman is innocent - end of story.
something you say when you think that the opinion you have just expressed about something is correct and that there is no other way of thinking about it:

I want no ifs, ands, or buts – give Sam his game back right now. (excuses)

This is what I want,' and there is no ifs ands or buts about it. It's a communication (factor).

Related Terms

Anthimeria is not the only unique way of reworking words. Here are a few devices similar to anthimeria:

Neologism

A neologism is a new word, or a word that has recently been invented. While neologisms are not always anthimerias, sometimes they are. Words like nerd, cyberspace, and swagger were once neologisms which have fully been accepted into our lexicon. Many neologisms are also anthimerias. Here are a few examples of neologisms that are also anthimerias:

Shakespearean: This adjective for works or studies related to Shakespeare is both a neologism and an anthimeria.
Blog: The neologism “blog” can also be used as a verb as in “to blog” and another noun as in the “blogger” who blogs.
Spam: Similar to “blog,” spam has come to be known as unwanted emails containing advertisements and viruses, but it can also be used as a verb as in “to spam someone.”

Verbing

Just as anthimeria can be neologism, verbing can be anthimeria. Verbing, also known as verbification, is a type of anthimeria in which a certain word is transformed into a verb. Here are a few examples of verbing:

Mouth: as in “He mouthed a message to her.”
Medal: as in “The Olympian medaled seven times.”
Debut: as in “They debuted the new movie on Friday.”

The Importance of Using Anthimeria

Anthimeria is also known as a conversion or functional shift in grammar studies. This is because anthimeria is a way in which our language transforms and changes over time. Words once designated as nouns or verbs become adjectives or other types of speech. Whereas we tend to think of language as something unchanging, in reality, it is constantly evolving with technology, need, and new poetic ways of saying things.

Understanding Anthimeria in Language
One of Its Greatest Practitioners: The Bard (of Avon)

"Anthimeria" is a rhetorical term for the creation of a new word or expression by using one part of speech or word class in place of another. For example, in the slogan for Turner Classic Movies, "Let's Movie," the noun "movie" is used as a verb.

In grammatical studies, anthimeria is known as a functional shift or conversion. The word comes from the Greek, meaning "one part for another."

Anthimeria and Shakespeare

In the National Review in 1991, Linda Bridges and William F. Rickenbacker discussed William Shakespeare's use of anthimeria and its impact on the English language.

"Anthimeria: Use of a word that is normally one part of speech in a situation that requires it to be understood as a different part of speech. In English, and this is one of its greatest virtues, almost any noun can be verbed. Indeed, one can read scarce a page of Shakespeare without running across some new verb hatched out of his teeming loin. 'To scarf,' for example, was the verb implied in Hamlet's speech, where he says, 'My sea-gown scarf'd about me.'

Ben Yagoda wrote about Shakespeare and anthimeria in The New York Times in 2006.

"Lexical categories are quite useful. They make possible not only Mad Libs but also the rhetorical device anthimeria — using a word as a noncustomary part of speech — which is the reigning figure of speech of the present moment.

"That's not to say it's a new thing. In Middle English, the nouns "'duke' and 'lord' started to be used as verbs, and the verbs 'cut' and 'rule' shifted to nouns. Shakespeare was a pro at this; his characters coined verbs — 'season your admiration,' 'dog them at the heels' -- and such nouns as 'design,' 'scuffle' and 'shudder.'

"This 'functional shifting,' as grammarians call it, is a favorite target of language mavens, whose eyebrows rise several inches when nouns like 'impact' and 'access' are verbed."

Anthimeria in Advertising

The ubiquity of ads spreads the use of new words, well, like crazy.

"Ads using anthimeria are everywhere. They can be divided into several categories, and I’ll start with the most popular.

Adjective Into Noun
'More Happy' — Sonos
'Bring the Good' — Organic Valley Milk
'Watch All the Awesome' — go90
'Where Awesome Happens' — Xfinity'We Put the Good in Morning' — Tropicana . . .
Noun Into Verb
'Come TV With Us' — Hulu
'How to Television' — Amazon'Let’s Holiday' — Skyy vodka
Adjective Into Adverb
'Live Fearless' — Blue Cross Blue Shield
'Build It Beautiful' — Squarespace . . .

"I am second to no one in my appreciation for anthimeria and the way it gooses the English language. But at this point, it’s a lazy, played-out cliche, and any copywriters who continue to resort to it should be ashamed of themselves."

Examples of Anthimeria

"Flaubert me no Flauberts. Bovary me no Bovarys. Zola me no Zolas. And exuberance me no exuberance. Thomas Wolfe, letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald
Calvin and Hobbes on Verbing:
Calvin: I like to verb words.
Hobbes: What?
Calvin: I take nouns and adjectives and use them as verbs. Remember when "access" was a thing? Now it's something you do. It got verbed. Verbing weirds language.
Hobbes: Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. — Bill Watterson, "Calvin and Hobbes"

Anadiplosis and Antimetabole

The way that antimetabole creates a mirroring effect between its two clauses also means that it creates a repetition of words within those clauses. As a result, all instances of antimetabole also contain anadiplosis:

"When the going gets tough, the tough get going."
"Live to eat, don't eat to live."

Definition of Paronomasia

Paronomasia is a rhetorical device that can be defined as a phrase intentionally used to exploit the confusion between words having similar sounds but different meanings. It is like a word play, and is also known as a “pun.”

Types of Paronomasia

Homophonic – The use of words that sound the same, but have different meanings, such as “Pour out corruption’s slag from every pore.”
Homographic – Words that are spelled the same, but have different meanings, such as “David doesn’t feel well today,” and “My uncle is digging a new well.”
Homonymic – These words include both homographs and homophones.
Compound – These contain two or more puns in a sentence.
Recursive – In these, the second part of a pun depends upon the meaning of the first.

Function of Paronomasia

Paronomasia gives thoughtful meanings to literary texts, aside from providing humorous and witty comments. Through paronomasia, writers demonstrate the shrewdness of characters, and their own ingenuity by playing with the words. Besides, in literary works, paronomasia functions as a purposeful efforts to provide a source of comic relief, and to show their artistic ability. Being a source of fun, paronomasia is used in comedy theaters, and jokes give humorous meanings to perplexing stories. Also, it is found in limerick forms of poetry.

What is a Paraphrase?

A paraphrase (pronounced par–uh-freyz) is a restatement or rewording of a paragraph or text, in order to borrow, clarify, or expand on information without plagiarizing. Paraphrasing is an important tool to use when writing research papers, essays, and pieces of journalism.

Related Terms

1. Summary

Like paraphrases, summaries are rewordings of original statements. Whereas paraphrases are precise and specific, summaries are brief and selective. Summaries report main points in a shortened version of the original, whereas paraphrases simply restate the original statement in a new way. Here is an example of summary versus paraphrase:

Original Statement: At the party we had delicious red punch, a bunch of different appetizers, and a cookout. Since it was at the park, we played volleyball, went swimming, and sunbathed for fun.

Summary: At the party we enjoyed food and drink and various outdoor activities.

Here, the summary purposefully shortens the original statement while covering its major points.

Paraphrase: At the party we drank some punch, ate a handful of appetizers, and had a cookout. The park allowed us to enjoy a number of enjoyable activities from volleyball to swimming to sunbathing.

As this example shows, the paraphrase rephrases the original statement and keeps more of its original content than the summary.

2. Translation

Although paraphrase sometimes translates difficult phrasing into more understandable phrasing, it is not literally considered translation. For something to be a translation, it must change writing in one language to another language. Here is an example of translation versus paraphrasing:

Original Phrase: That’s life.

Translation into French: C’est la vie.

Paraphrase: That’s just how life goes sometimes.

Although we loosely may refer to paraphrase as translating ideas, technically it is not a tool of translation.

Definition of Pleonasm

Pleonasm is derived from a Greek word that means “excess.” It is a rhetorical device that can be defined as the use of two or more words (a phrase) to express an idea. These words are redundant, such as in these examples of pleonasm” “burning fire,” and “black darkness.” Sometimes, pleonasm is called “tautology,” which is the repetition of words.

Examples of Pleonasm in Pop Culture

Ellie Goulding’s “Love Me Like You Do” The title of this song is a pleonasm: we can assume that someone will love “how they do” or in their own fashion. Goulding’s speaker uses the pleonasm to emphasis that she wants to be loved but in a certain way, in her lover’s way. "It" is one of the hardest pronouns to coreference since many times it can appear in a sentence without an antecedent.

Pleonastic "It": This is called "dummy it" or more properly, pleonastic it. The goal of this project is to identify instances of pleonastic it while maintaining a high level of recall, precision, and accuracy. Pleonastic instances can be grouped together into four categories: extraposition, cleft, atmospheric, and miscellaneous. Extraposition is the offset of the subject of a sentence; in this specific instance, the placeholder for the subject is it. Cleft is a sentence with two clauses, one independent one dependent, each with its own verb; in this instance, the subject of the independent clause is "it". Atmospheric refers to sentences which describe an event, time, distance, or weather using "it" as the subject. Miscellaneous mostly refers to idiomatic instances that use it as a subject.

Periphrasis

Definition of Periphrasis

Periphrasis originates from the Greek word periphrazein, which means “talking around.” It is a stylistic device that can be defined as the use of excessive and longer words to convey a meaning which could have been conveyed with a shorter expression, or in a few words. It is an indirect or roundabout way of writing about something. For example, using the phrase “I am going to” instead of “I will” is periphrasis. This is also called “circumlocution,” but there is a slight difference between circumlocution and periphrasis.

Types of Periphrasis

Periphrasis is one type of circumlocution. There are two types of circumlocution, namely periphrasis and ambage. Periphrasis is a roundabout explanation of something, while ambage is an indirect and ambiguous way of expressing things or ideas.

Difference Between Paraphrasis and Periphrasis

Para means “beside,” whereas peri means “around.” In paraphrasing, ambiguous statements are restated in order to enhance the meanings, while periphrasis is a measured roundabout way of expressing something.

EUPHEMISMUS

The term euphemism refers to polite, indirect expressions that replace words and phrases considered harsh and impolite, or which suggest something unpleasant. Euphemism is an idiomatic expression, which loses its literal meanings and refers to something else, in order to hide its unpleasantness. For example, “kick the bucket” is a euphemism that describes the death of a person. In addition, many organizations use the term “downsizing” for the distressing act of “firing” its employees.

Euphemism depends largely on the social context of the speakers and writers, where they feel the need to replace certain words that may prove embarrassing for particular listeners or readers in a particular situation.

LITOTES

Deliberate understatement, especially when expressing a thought by denying its opposite. It's a means of expressing modesty modesty (downplaying one's accomplishments) in order to gain the audience's favor (establishing ethos).

What’s the difference between Anastrophe and Hyperbaton?

HYPERBATON AND ANASTROPHE

See how powerful anastrophe and hyperbaton can be? Of course, you would really need to use it sparingly, unlike Shakespeare who was a big fan. While he, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, W. B. Yeats, e.e. cummings, and Aristotle can get away with it, the rest of us need to save it for when we need the biggest emphasis.

Or you could base an entire character on speaking in anastrophe and/or hyperbaton. But then, George Lucas already did that, so you’d just be copying.

Definitions

Hyperbaton is transposing the order of words in a sentence for emphasis or to make your reader think a little bit more.
Anastrophe is a type of hyperbaton that transposes a single word.

Anastrophe examples

This I’ve got to see.
And you decided to stick it up your nose why?
Honesty, I value most.
"Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer."—Winston Churchill

Anything Yoda said

Any line Yoda speaks is either anastrophe or hyperbaton. Seriously, think about it.
"This one a long time I have watched."
"Patience you must have."

Assonance Definition (vs consonance)

Assonance takes place when two or more words, close to one another repeat the same vowel sound, but start with different consonant sounds.

For instance, in the following sentence:

“Men sell the wedding bells.”

The same vowel sound of the short vowel “-e-” repeats itself in almost all the words, excluding the definite article. The words do share the same vowel sounds, but start with different consonant sounds – unlike alliteration, which involves repetition of the same consonant sounds. Below are a few assonance examples that are common.

Johnny went here and there and everywhe

Here there and everywhere (Beatles' song)

ALLITERATION

Poetry is filled with alliteration because it lends itself naturally to the tone and musicality of the poetry. Take a look at these poems that are filled with alliteration, and see how it affects not only the sound, but also the meaning of the poems.

FIGURES OF REPETITION

Repetition is the simple repeating of a word, within a short space of words (including in a poem), with no particular placement of the words to secure emphasis. It is a multilinguistic written or spoken device, frequently used in English and several other languages, and so rarely termed a figure of speech.
Its forms, many of which are listed below, have varying resonances to listing (forms of enumeration, such as "Firstly, Secondly, Thirdly and lastly..."), as a matter of trite logic often similar in effect.
It features in famous poems such as:

“

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked
to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.
(Natalia Ginzburg, The Little Virtues, 1962)

Conduplicatio is the repetition of a word in various places throughout a paragraph. Ex: "And the world said, 'Disarm, disclose, or face serious consequences'—and therefore, we worked with the world, we worked to make sure that Saddam Hussein heard the message of the world."^[2] (George W. Bush)
Polyptoton is the repetition of a word derived from the same root in different grammatical forms. In inflected languages, this commonly refers to the repetition of a single word in different grammatical cases. Ex: "Diamond me no diamonds, prize me no prizes" (Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine)

Mesodiplosis is the repetition of a word or phrase at the middle of every clause. Ex: "We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed..." (Second Epistle to the Corinthians)

Epistrophe is the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of every clause. Ex: "that government of the people, by the people, for the people" (Abraham Lincoln); "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny compared to what lies within us." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Epizeuxis or palilogia is the repetition of a single word, with no other words in between. This is derived from Greek for "fastening together^":"Words, words, words." (Hamlet)
Polysyndeton: Opposite of asyndeton, a superabundance of conjunctions. Ex: Things got worse and worse and worse and pretty soon they were too complicated.

FIGURES OF COMPARISON (REFERENCE)

Synecdoche: A whole is represented by naming one of its parts or vice versa. It should not be confused with metonymy which uses something closely related to the actual thing it references. Ex: Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not praise him, (stating figuratively that he wants their attention); Lend a hand.
Metonymy: Reference to something or someone by naming one of its attributes (aspects). Ex: The pen is mightier than the sword.

ALLUSION

If your friend drops his voice and says “I’ll be back” in a foreign accent, who does it remind you of? Arnold Schwarzeneger, of course. That’s an allusion. Bite into a carrot and ask “What’s up, doc?” Bugs Bunny. Another allusion.

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Trope: The use of a word, phrase, or image in a way not intended by its normal signification.
Scheme: A change in standard word order or pattern.

ANT(H)IMERIA (See also Verb(ing), verbification; conversion, zero derivation)

Don't talk the talk if you can't walk the walk.

Success is never getting to the bottom of your to-do list.

There is simply too much corruption, too much money available for the taking / asking.

These Boots Are Made for Walking (by Nancy Sinatra): Yeah, you keep lyin’ when you oughta be truthin’; You keep samin’ when you oughta be a changin’ (in Songs)

The most common form of anthimeria is the use of a noun as if it were a verb. Example: I can keyboard that article this afternoon.

* The most common form of anthimeria is the use of a noun as if it were a verb. Example: I can keyboard that article this afternoon. (The noun "keyboard" is used as a verb).

Searching online is no longer “searching.” Now we “Google.”

"Let's Movie," In the slogan for Turner Classic Movies . Anthimeria in Advertising

I ear you you word me ???? Shakespeare

Less common: adjective to noun (the Wicked Witch's "I'll get you, my pretty") and adverb to verb (to down a drink).

ANTIMETABOLES (aka Chiasmus)

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask (instead) what you can do for your country.

He who questions training only trains himself at asking questions *

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

It is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy.

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love.

The best way to have what you want / love, is to want / love what you have *

ANTITHESIS

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

The only thing worse than not getting what you want is someone else getting it.

I'd rather annoy with the truth than please with adulation.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies.

To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it

To keep your marriage brimming / working / happy, whenever you're wrong admit it; whenever you're right shut up

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Sometimes it takes sadness to know happiness.

(Remember that) You cannot protect yourself from sadness / pain / misery / despair / sorrow without (also) protecting yourself from happiness / joy.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Being superstitious is for ignorants, but not being superstitious is bad luck

To be, or not to be: that is the question.

ANASTROPHE / INVERSION (see also emphasis):

May you ennoble your present by recapturing the joys of the past.

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

Not until you become a parent yourself do you understand what it really means.

It's lonely at the top; but you do eat better

META: Life is a play. It's not its length, but its performance that counts * Our life is what our thoughts make it * Success is / involves / consists of going from failure to failure without losing / with no loss of enthusiasm

OXIM: If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry ★ The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions* Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering; and it's all over much too soon * Last month I blew $5,000 on a reincarnation seminar. I figured, hey, you only live once * I love mankind. It's people I can't stand ★ You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes * I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

REPETITION (Anaphora, antanaclasis, antimetabole, rhyme ...)
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself * The need for there to be a meaning to life is actually closely / intimately related with / to the need for there to be a meaning to suffering * Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it * To succeed in life, one must succeed at being oneself.
No pain, no gaing.

SIMIL: Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving ★ Life is like a puzzle: half the fun is in trying to work it out ☆ Living without philosophizing is literally (like) having your eyes closed without ever trying to open them * Worrying / Worry is like (sitting in) a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but never gets you / it doesn't get you / anywhere

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https://www.thoughtco.com/top-figures-of-speech-1691818 FOR PRINTING

HYPOPHORA: You know what charm is? a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question * Can you imagine a world without men? There'd no crime and lots of fat happy women * TROPS:

ELLIPSIS: Love yourself no matter what! * The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone * Man-up when necessary (be tough) * The strong man is strongest when alone * If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right * Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something * Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right.
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EUPHEMISM: I'm moving on in years, but I tell you I still want to kick the devil before I kick the bucket (dying) * We've lost 400,000 jobs in Michigan because of downsizing. (firing)

We've lost 400,000 jobs in Michigan because of downsizing.
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HYPERBOLE: Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times * I've told you a million times not to call me a liar! * A ton of ...
IRONY: Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today * Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts * Oh, I love spending big bucks.
METAPHORE: Marriage is like life; it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses / no bed of roses (in a negative context) * Life is neither a tragedy nor a comedy. It is a blend of tragic-comedy / Life is what you make of it * Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have/get your way * It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
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PARADOXES / OXIMORON: I was never less alone than when by myself * I am deeply superficial (Oxim) * If you are afraid of loneliness, don’t marry * Many would be cowards if they dared * Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it * You'll find yourself asking, “How am I supposed to gain experience if I'm constantly turned down for not having any?
PUNS: Einstein developed a theory about space, and it was about time too.
RHETORICAL QUESTIONS: What does it matter? (meaning: it doesn't matter) * Philosophy: How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? *

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
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With all the violence on TV today, is it any wonder kids bring guns to school? You have to think anyway, why not think big?
SIMILE: (Doing) math(s) is like going to the gym for your brain / it's a workout for your brain, strengthens and sharpens your mind and it makes you smarter * Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving * Worry(ing) is like (sitting on) a rocking chair: it (will) gives you something to do / you can rock all you want, but never gets you anywhere / but it doesn't get you anywhere / but (it) gets you nowhere / but (it) won't get you anywhere. SCHEMES:
ANASTROPHE (HYPERBATON / INVERSION): Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends * Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall (Shakespeare)

REPETITION: I want my money, right now, right here, all right? (emphasis)
Anaphora: Unfortunately, I was in the wrong place, (I was) at the wrong time on the wrong day. (ellipsis) * I have a dream that one day ... (4 times) * It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ... We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end.
Antanaclasis: If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm * Your argument is sound (sensible, reliable). Nothing but sound (noise). (a common kind of pun)
Parallelism: Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself * A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning * We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

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“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”

MORE THAN ONE RULE

* A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do
* However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at
* People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me (KIERKEGAARD)
* (Look/Maybe) you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn, by answering questions / by asking / doing / practicing (it)

GRAMMAR POSTER

COLLO: I am fully aware of the critical moments we face as a country.

CONJ: Age is not important unless you're a cheese * I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it * Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
DM: As for me, all I know is (that) I know nothing * As for discipline and rules, I (must) confess, I've never been good with either * It's funny how I'm good at giving advice to others, but when it comes to helping myself, I don't know what to do * (As an actor) I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing Jobs * When it comes to being happy, there's no right or wrong. It's just a battle between your happiness & THEIR JUDGMENT * By and large women can bear pain better than men * By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
GER: (For me) The hardest thing about learning English is understanding the gerund. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing * If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right * Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without (you/r) having to get the facts * There is only one way to happiness, and that is to stop worrying about things that are beyond our control * Not smoking is associated with lower risk of hypertension / is one of the best things you can do for your health * People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me * There can be differences of opinion without there being personal differences * (Look/Maybe) you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn, by answering questions / by asking / doing / practicing (it).
IDIOM: (The) bottom line is (that) everyone thinks differently
MOD: Life is like a piano. What you get out of it (largely) depends (to a remarkable extent / entirely) on how you play it * I'm extremely hard to work with * I am very, very diligent and extremely hard-working * I am basically, intrinsically and irresistibly a Democrat.
PART: Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
PREP: (The) Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for * However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at * Worrying works 99% of the things I worry about never (get to) happen.
TENSE: If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it * I Wish I didn't have to work for a living
THERE BE: Why does there have to be an explanation for everything / at all? * The need for there to be a meaning to life is actually closely / intimately related with / to the need for there to be a meaning to suffering * In order to endure the hardships of human existence, it is necessary for individuals to believe that their suffering has a purpose ★There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what you wants, and the other is getting it * There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about * It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you * QT: Do you remember learning to walk/run/ride a bike? You don't, do you?. You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by falling over and getting back up
PH.V: I always get / arrive late to / at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early * A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way, that you actually look forward to going there / the trip

STRUCTURE POSTER

STR: We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving * It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it * It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages * It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding * For the marriage to work, both parties need to be good people * For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first * In order for there to be betrayal there must have been trust first * What is the hardest aspect / feature of English for you to learn? * Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect * Life is a play. It's not its length, but its performance that counts.

I'm hopeless at telling lies. I can attempt strategic ones in order not to hurt people's feelings, but then I'll blow it 10 minutes later * Sometimes it takes sadness to know happiness, noise to appreciate silence, and absence to value presence * He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done * Do what you want to do, say what you want to say / Say what you want and be who you are, because those who matter don’t mind, and those who do mind don’t matter * I don't like someone telling me what to do. I don't like / dislike being told what to do * Quitting smoking can help most of the major parts of your body: from your brain to your DNA * How to make NOT smoking a habit ★

PRASEOLOGY POSTER

BOOK: Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

FAMOUS L.W: I hope I haven’t bored you * I’m losing It * I’ll finally get to see Marilyn * I know you've come / you're here to kill me. Shoot, coward! You are only going to kill a man! * I'm tired of fighting, Dash. I guess this thing is going to get me * If someone is going to kill me, they will kill me * It’s awfully hot today * (Alas / Unfortunately / Unluckily / Sadly / Regrettably), My fun days are over * Never felt better * My work is done, why wait?

FILM: Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get * Love means never having to / not ever having to say you're sorry *

ADS: Let your fingers do the walking * With Bank of America your savings will grow without you(r) having to lift a finger

ONE-LINER: Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway * Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without having to ask / asking a clear question * Men live better than women. First of all, they get married later and secondly, they die earlier

SAYING: Tell me who you go with and I'll tell you who you are * When the going gets tough, the tough get going

RHETORICAL FIGURES POSTER

ANTIMET: Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness * Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have ★ It is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy * Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get * The best way to have what you want / love, is to want / love what you have *

ANTITH: A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do * If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live * Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it * To keep your marriage brimming / working / happy, whenever you're wrong admit it; whenever you're right shut up * Sometimes it takes sadness to know happiness * (Remember that) You cannot protect yourself from sadness / pain / misery / despair / sorrow without (also) protecting yourself from happiness / joy * Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated * There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
INV/EMPH: Not until you become a parent yourself do you understand what it really means (N.A) * It's lonely at the top; but you do eat better
META: Life is a play. It's not its length, but its performance that counts * Our life is what our thoughts make it * Success is / involves / consists of going from failure to failure without losing / with no loss of enthusiasm
OXIM: If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry ★ The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions* Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering; and it's all over much too soon * Last month I blew $5,000 on a reincarnation seminar. I figured, hey, you only live once * I love mankind. It's people I can't stand ★ You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes * I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

REPET: Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself * The need for there to be a meaning to life is actually closely / intimately related with / to the need for there to be a meaning to suffering * Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it * To succeed in life, one must succeed at being oneself
SIMIL: Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving ★ Life is like a puzzle: half the fun is in trying to work it out ☆ Living without philosophizing is literally (like) having your eyes closed without ever trying to open them * Worrying / Worry is like (sitting in) a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but never gets you / it doesn't get you / anywhere

ONE-LINERS

* Yes, money cannot buy you happiness, but I'd still feel a lot more comfortable crying in a new BMW than on a bike.
* To me, life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside.

* We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations. We're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.

Men live better than women. First of all, they get married later and secondly, they die earlier.
★ Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter *

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* * * You have to fail in order to practice being brave * Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated * When in high school, you have a carefree attitude instead of being completely responsible for yourself * Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts * * If you don’t have enough time, stop watching TV ** * The important thing is not to stop questioning * * * You know what's funny? I don't ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises. I don't see that happening to me.

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FIGURES OF SPEECH

@ MY QUOTES

* The best way to have what you love, is to love what you have.

FIGURES OF SPEECH (RHETORICAL DEVICES)

1@ ANTIMETABOLE

(My fellow Americans), ask not what your country can do for you, ask what / but what / (but) ask instead what you can do for your country.
♥ Life
* One should eat to live, not live to eat.
* It is not about the years in your life, but about the life in your years.
★ It's not the men in your life that count, it's the life in your men.

★One should eat to live, not live to eat.
★ I lead the life I love; I love the life I lead. (chiasmus)

♥ Happiness

* Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

* It is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy.

* Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

★ Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.
★ To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

♥ Love

★Do I love you because you're beautiful? Or are you are beautiful because I love you?

★ If you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with.

★ Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

★ Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it.

★ To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear.
★ You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.
♥ Marriage & Singlehood

★ Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
* When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman.

♥ Success

★ Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.

2 @ ANTITHESIS

♥ Life

★ Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

★Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
★ Men live better than women. First of all, they get married later and secondly, they die earlier.

★ If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
★There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what you wants, and the other is getting it.

♥ Happiness

* Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places.

* Sometimes it takes sadness to know happiness, noise to appreciate silence, and absence to value presence.
* When it comes to being happy, there's no right or wrong. It's just a battle between your happiness & THEIR JUDGMENT.
* Yes, money cannot buy you happiness, but I'd still feel a lot more comfortable crying in a new BMW than on a bike.

★ You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.

★ You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

★ (It's like Tolstoy said). Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

♥ Love
* I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.
★ The best and the worst thing about love is that it cannot be expressed in words.

★ Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

★ Don't cry because love is / it's over, smile because it happened.

♥ Marriage & Singlehood

★ By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
★ Have fun with your wife, or she'll look for fun without you. Plutarch

★ Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
★ Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.

★The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
* “So, you came to know your husband’s future?”. “No way, tell me about his past, then I’ll decide about his future!!”
★ To keep your marriage brimming / working / happy, whenever you're wrong admit it; whenever you're right shut up
★ To marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

♥ Success (& failure)
★ A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

3 @ METAPHORS (definitions & descriptions)

♥ Life

★ Our life is what our thoughts make it.

♥ Happiness

★ Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

★ Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.
* Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
* Life is the mixture of sorrows and happiness.

* What is happiness? The feeling that power increases—that a resistance is overcome.
♥ Love
* Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
★ (It's like Tolstoy said). Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

★ Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
★ Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.

♥ Marriage & Singlehood
★ A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.
★ Love may be blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener.
★ Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.
* Marriage is a matter of wife and death. Without death there can be no wife.
* Marriage is a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. Ambrose Bierce
* Marriage is the main reason for divorce.
* Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

★ To marry is / means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

♥ Success & failure

★ Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.
★ Success is / involves / consists of going from failure to failure without losing / with no loss of enthusiasm.

4 @ OXIMORONS (PARADOX)

♥ Life
* You can't get experience without a job, and you can't get a job without experience.

★ Dying is a part of life.
* Being a hypochondriac is going to save my life one of these days
★ The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

* Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering—and it's all over much too soon.

* Last month I blew $5,000 on a reincarnation seminar. I figured, hey, you only live once.

♥ Happiness

★ To get happiness forget about it; then, with any luck, happiness will come as a by-product in pursuing meaningful activities and relationships. (This adage is known as the paradox of happiness)

♥ Love

★ I love mankind. It's people I can't stand.

♥ Marriage & Singlehood

★ If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
* We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations. We're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.

♥ Success

★

5 @ PARALLELISM

♥ Life

★ From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

★ Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

♥ Happiness

★ To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

♥ Love

★ To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear.

♥ Marriage & Singlehood

★ A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't. A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, and she does.
★ A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband. A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
★ By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
★ Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

♥ Success

★ Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get

6 @ PUNS

♥ Life

★ When life gives you lemons, make lemonade; When life gives you lemons, you don't HAVE to make lemonade; When life gives you melons, you might be dyslexic.

♥ Happiness

★ Why can't tennis players ever find happiness? Love means nothing to them.
* Never marry a tennis player ... After they score, the love is gone.

♥ Love
* Love is like Heaven... It makes me wish I was dead.

★ You can't blame Gravity for falling in love.

♥ Marriage & Singlehood
* I tried to re-marry my ex-wife. But she figured out I was only after my money.
* I think as marriages go, we’re doing absolutely awesome, I mean I get to sleep with my wife nearly every day! Nearly on Monday, nearly on Tuesday, nearly on Wednesday, nearly on Thursday, nearly on Friday, nearly on Saturday, nearly on Sunday.
* If your wife wants to learn to drive, don't stand in her way.
* Losing a husband can be hard: in my case it was almost impossible.
* Marriage is a matter of wife and death. Without death there can be no wife.
* My wife’s cooking is so bad we usually pray after our food.
* Wife to husband: "I'm pregnant!" Husband: "You're kidding me!"

★ Marriage is a three ring circus; engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
★ What happened when the two angels got married? They lived harpily ever after!; to harp on (at somebody) about something: dar la lata, harpy: arpia, harp: arpa.

♥ Success

★

7 @ REPETITION (Anaphoras, antanaclasis)

♥ Life

★ Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

★We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

♥ Happiness

★ (They say) a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

★ Happiness is a choice. Attitude is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.

★ Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

★Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
♥ Love

★ (I'm free). Do what you love, Do it often, And do it unapologetically.

♥ Marriage & Singlehood

★ To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the loving cup, whenever you're wrong admit it; whenever you're right shut up.
★ Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.
★ The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

♥ Success

★ Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

8 @ SIMILES

♥ Life

* Life is like a box of chocolates – you never know what you’re gonna get.

★ Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
★ Life is like a piano. What you get out of it (largely) depends (to a remarkable extent / entirely) on how you play it.

☆ Life is like a puzzle: half the fun is in trying to work it out.

☆ Living without philosophizing is literally (like) having your eyes closed without ever trying to open them.

♥ Happiness

★ Don't Seek Happiness Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you / the more it will run away from you.
★ Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

♥ Love
★ Love is like Heaven... It makes me wish I was dead.
★ Love is like a shadow, when you chase it, it runs away, when you turn back and walk away, it follows you.

★ Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

♥ Marriage & Singlehood
* A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
* Arguing with the wife is a lot like trying to read the Terms of Use on the internet. In the end you just give up and go “I Agree”.
☆ Dating without wanting to get married is like shopping without money. You either leave disappointed or take something that isn’t yours.

★ Everyone is always saying hello to Bob. It’s like being married to a superstar!
★ Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.
★ Marriage is like a coffin and each kid is another nail.
★ Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up.

9 @ GRAMMAR & STRUCTURES

♥ Life

★ As with any situation in life, for every pro there is definitely a con! As I see it, the consequences of owning a Ferrary are both marvelous and horrendous / positive and negative.

★ Being shy makes life ten times harder. No doubt. You have to struggle to do things that other peole find so easy. However, being shy teaches you so much about empathy, observing and understanding.

★ If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

★ We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
* Life is too short for wasting time. Live every day like it was the last day, and one day you won't miss.

* Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
* Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.
* To me, life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside. (On pregnancy)
* When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
♥ Happiness
* Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
* Happiness is found only in little moments of inattention.

* Here's a piece of advice: Never put your happiness in someone else's hands.

* The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.

* Happiness comes from realizing you're no longer unhappy.
*Money can't buy happiness, but it can help you look for it quicker, in a convertible.

* Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.

* Just because someone left, doesn't mean your happiness is gone.

* Happiness doesn't depend on anybody but ourselves.

* The best revenge is happiness, because nothing drives people more crazy then seeing someone actually having a good life.
* There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

* There is only one way to happiness, and that is to stop worrying about things that are beyond our control.

* Truth or happiness. Never both.
* When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”

♥ Love
★ Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

★ If you chase love, it will run away from you.

♥ Marriage & Singlehood
★I was married by a judge; I should have asked for a jury.
★The problem with most women is that they get all excited about nothing, then marry him.

♥ Success
★ As long as you keep going, you'll keep getting better. And as you get better, you gain more confidence. That alone is success.

★ All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
★ However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
★ Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

★ Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

★ Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
★ There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.

★ Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

10 @ "IT'S" CLAUSES

@ Happiness
* It is said that, you can't buy happiness. You only need to know the right places...

★ It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it. (ST)

@ Marriage and singlehood
* It's better to be the first lover than a third wife.
* It's not a flaw to have a husband, but an essential drawback to have a wife.

@ Ellipsis: omission of implied words, whether mundane, as in “He was the only person (who) I saw,” or poetic, as in “Wrongs are engraved on marble; benefits (are engraved) on sand.”

♥ Marriage & Singlehood
★ Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
★ Outvoted 1-1 by my wife again.
★ Waiting to marry means expending more time learning who you are and what you want.
★ When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman.
@ Pleonasm: redundancy for literary effect, as in “He that has ears to hear, let him hear.”

@ Hyperbaton: transposition of words, as in “Happy is he who is simple.”

@ Personification is giving human qualities to non-living things or ideas.
★ I'm not married,” he said softly, “because I can't stomach the idea of marrying a woman inferior to me in mind and spirit. It would mean the death of my soul.
★ To keep your marriage brimming / working / happy, whenever you're wrong admit it; whenever you're right shut up

@ Anastrophe (from the Greek: ἀναστροφή, anastrophē, "a turning back or about") is a figure of speech in which the normal word order of the subject, the verb, and the object is changed.
* The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

@ RHYME
* Everybody wants happiness nobody wants pain but you can't have a rainbow without (having) a little rain
* Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.

12 @ SOMETIMES

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Much Ado About MARRIAGE (Written by Tom Mc Guire)

We don’t need to go all the way back to ancient Greece to find philosophers with strong views about marriage. Not many people know that the 19th century German author of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche, offered enough marital advice to fill numerous weekly columns. Granted, some of his suggestions seem alien to modern sensibilities. “Are you visiting women? Do not forget your whip!” is wisdom which the Sensitive New Age Guy may find a little difficult to take on board. But if we look past the more obvious signs of misogyny, in many ways Nietzsche was ahead of his time: "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages")

MARRIAGE QUOTES

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Mignon McLaughlin

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. Socrates

Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all. Diana Gabaldon

Getting married and settling down isn't the most important thing in my life. Liam Neeson

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men. Nikola Tesla

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. Friedrich Nietzsche

For the marriage to work, both parties need to be good people. G.M. Rufus

Longed for him. Got him. Shit. Margaret Atwood

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. Ambrose Bierce

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. - Ambrose Bierce

Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. M. West.

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers. Richard Pryor

One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.
Oscar Wilde

Sexiness wears thin after awhile and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that is a treat. J. Woodward

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. Katharine Hepburn

The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again. Nora Ephron

The magic isn't in getting married, it's in staying married. Derek Luke

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast. Gabriel García Márquez

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing, and then marry him. Cher.

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.
Greta Garbo

Time will make your relationship stronger. Plutarch

Women marry because they believe that he will change one day. Men marry because they believe she'll never change. Both are mistaken.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?. Barbra Streisand

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MARRIAGE IN LITERATURE

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. Paolo Coelho

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you
control it. John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

I knew that you'd only married me for convenience. I loved you so much, I didn't care. Most people, as far as I can see, when they're in love with someone and the love isn't returned feel that they have a grievance. They grow angry and bitter. I wasn't like that. I never expected you to love me, I didn't see any reason that you should. I never thought myself very lovable. I tried not to bore you with my love; I knew I couldn't afford to do that and I was always on the lookout for the first sign that you were impatient with my affection. What most husbands expect as a right I was prepared to receive as a favor. W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother. Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters

I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact. O. Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

I'm not married,” he said softly, “because I can't stomach the idea of marrying a woman inferior to me in mind and spirit. It would mean the death of my soul. Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now so he shall never know how I love him and that not because he's handsome Nelly but because he's more myself than I am. Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage. Ambrose Bierce,
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary.

Men don't settle down because of the right woman. They settle down because they are finally ready for it. Whatever woman they're dating when they get ready is the one they settle down with, not necessarily the best one or the prettiest, just the one who happened to be on hand when the time got to be right. Unromantic, but still true. Laurell K. Hamilton, A Kiss of Shadows

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice.

So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state. Sylvia plath, The Bell Jar

There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, frankly are hard to find. Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. Timothy Keller, The Meaning of Marriage

We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams. Kate Chisman, Run

When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married. William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Jodi Picoult, Mercy.

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FUNNY MARRIAGE QUOTES

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her. Agatha Christie

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats. Woody Allen

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means. Henny Youngman

Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one. Mae West

“I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? George Carlin

I love being married, I do. It's so great to find that one special person (that) you want to annoy for the rest of your life. Rita Rudner

I take thee... to be my awful wedded husband. Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. Groucho Marx

My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. Rodney Dangerfield

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?. Groucho Marx

Marriage is full of surprises but it's mostly just asking each other "do you have to do that right now?"

Marriage is mostly misreading facial expressions and asking each other, "You ok?"

Marriage isn't for everybody - men for instance!

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays. Henry Youngman

Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere. Groucho Marx.

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong admit it; Whenever you're right shut up. Ogden Nash

Well, the old theory was "marry an older man because they're more mature". But the new theory is "men don't mature (so) marry a young one". Rita Rudner

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will. Robert Frost

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ONE-LINERS ON MARRIAGE

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85% of married life consists of yelling "what?" from the other side of the house.

A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.

A little boy asked his father, "Daddy, how much does it cost to get married?" Father replied, "I don't know son, I'm still paying."

A man and a woman are having a date. The woman remarks, “You know, you look totally like my third husband!” The man is startled and asks, “Really, Laura, how many times have you been married?!”. “Twice.”

A man simply doesn’t have a clue what real happiness is until he gets married. But then it’s already too late for him.

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions which your wife asks for nothing.

A wife / Wives is / are like a hand grenade. Take off / remove the ring and say good bye to your house * What do a grenade and a woman have in common? You remove the ring and your whole house is gone.

A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't. A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, and she does.

A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband. A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

Any married man should forget his mistakes, there's no use in two people remembering the same thing.

Arguing with your husband is fun, even if he wins... he loses.

Arguing with the wife is a lot like trying to read the Terms of Use on the internet. In the end you just give up and go “I Agree”.

At every party there are two kinds of people: those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Dear men, if you stopped seeing your wife as a woman, it doesn't mean that all men are blind.

Do you need space? Join NASA!

Childs experience: if a mother is laughing at the fathers jokes, it means they have guests.

Get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

How are tornadoes and marriage alike? They both begin with a lot of sucking and blowing, and in the end you lose your house.

How do you turn a fox into an elephant? Marry it!

I always take too long to notice when somebody’s flirting with me. Usually by the time I catch on, the person is married with 4 kids.

I always wanted to marry an Archeologist. The older I would get, the more interested she would become!

I asked my wife if she ever fantasizes about me, she said yes - about me taking out the trash, mowing the lawn, and doing the dishes.

I asked my wife what she wanted for Christmas. She told me "Nothing would make her happier than a diamond necklace" So I bought her nothing.

I felt incomplete until I married you. Now I’m finished.

I haven't spoken to my wife for 18 months; I don't like to interrupt her. * I haven’t spoken a word to my wife in years. She hates to be interrupted.

I had my credit card stolen the other day but I didn't bother to report it because the thief spends less than my wife.

I love (it) when I leave work early to surprise my wife at home and she greets me with those three very special words… "Were you fired?"

I married Miss Right. I just didn't know her first name was Always.

I never could bring a woman into my house. At first, because of the parents. Later, because of the wife.

I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. (residuos tóxicos)

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

I think the only time my ex didn't fake an orgasm was when the judge signed the divorce papers.

I tried to re-marry my ex-wife. But she figured out I was only after my money.

I'm seriously thinking about re-marrying my ex-wife, but I'm pretty sure she'll figure out I'm just after my money.

I’ve just had a really big row with my wife about going on holiday. I wanted to go to Paris; she wanted to come with me.

If it's true that girls will probably marry men who resemble their fathers, it would explain why so many mothers cry at weddings.

If your wife wants to learn to drive, don't stand in her way.

In any argument, a wife has the last word. Anything the husband says after that last word is the beginning of a new argument.

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

It's better to be the first lover than a third wife.

Just read that 4,153,237 people got married last year, not to cause any trouble but shouldn't that be an even number?

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Losing a husband can be hard: in my case it was almost impossible.

Love may be blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener * Love is blind, only marriage opens your eyes.

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.

Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up.

Marriage is the main reason for divorce.

My ex wrote to me: Can you delete my number? I responded: Who is this?

My girlfriend said she expected me to treat her like a princess. Very well, I married her to a weird guy old enough to be her grandpa to strengthen my business alliance with Germany.

My new wife left me because of my huge insecurity problems. Oh no, hang on, she’s back. She just went to the bathroom!

My son asked me what it's like to be married so I told him to leave me alone and when he did I asked him why he was ignoring me.

My wife told me to go and get something that would make her look sexy. So I got drunk.

My wife wants to talk to me about my childish behavior. Well, she may want all she likes, but she’s not getting inside my pillow castle without a password!

My wife was complaining that only women are capable of doing more than one thing at once and how unfair that was.

So I told her to just shut the heck up and walk away.

Yep, you guessed it. She couldn’t manage either.

My wife and I always compromise. I admit I'm wrong and she agrees with me.

My wife and I had a two-hour fight about whether or not we were fighting.

My wife and I had very happy twenty years. After that we met.

My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him!

My wife said she’d leave me unless I stop playing constantly with the walkie-talkie, over.

My wife says I can join your gang but I have to be home by 9.

My wife told me that I twist everything she says to my advantage. I take that as a compliment.

My wife sent her photograph to the Lonely Hearts Club. They sent it back saying they weren't that lonely.

(Coworker): My husband's / wife's an angel. Me: You're lucky.. mine's still alive.

My wife's not too smart. I told her, our kids were spoiled. She said, "All kids smell that way."

One easy step to lose an argument with a wife: 1) Argue.

The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.

The difference between divorce and legal separation is that a legal separation gives a husband time to hide his money.

The five most essential words for a healthy, vital marriage / relationship: "I apologize" and "You are right."

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

There are 2 times when a man doesn't understand a woman - before marriage and after marriage.

Top 3 situations that require witnesses: 1) Crimes 2) Accidents 3) Marriages Need I say more?

What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is every night? A widow * Only a widow can say exactly where her husband is.

What happened when the two angels got married? They lived harpily ever after!; to harp on (at somebody) about something: dar la lata, harpy: arpia, harp: arpa.

What's the difference between a girlfriend and a wife? 45 pounds.

What's the difference between a new husband and a new dog? After a year, the dog is still excited to see you.

When a newly married woman smiles, all know why, but when a ten-years married woman smiles, all wonder why.

When you want to marry a beautiful, a smart and a rich woman – marry three times.

Why didn't the man report his stolen credit card? The thief was spending less then his wife.

Why do husbands die before their wives? They want to.

Why do they call it the “mother tongue”? Because the man never gets to put a word in.

Why is divorce so expensive? Because it's worth it!

Wife: "I look fat. Can you give me a compliment?" Husband: "You have perfect eyesight."

Women are saints. They forgive you even when you’re not guilty!

Women are so funny sometimes. They think that their long silences or “I won’t talk to you” attitudes is actually a punishment.

Women can be likened to roads. The more curves, the bigger the danger.

You have two choices in life: You can stay single and be miserable, or get married and wish you were dead.

You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to.

You should argue with your wife only when she's not around.

You sound reasonable. It must be time to up (increase) my medication!

JOKES ON WIFE & HUSBANDS (MARRIAGE)

A fortune teller asks a woman: “So, you came to know your husband’s future?”
“No way, tell me about his past, then I’ll decide about his future!!”

When did you get to know your wife?
- Sadly, about a week after the wedding.

Honey, what will you give me for our 25th anniversary?
- A trip to Thailand?
- Wow, that’s awesome, and for our 50th anniversary?
- Then I pick you up again.

Honey, do you think I gained weight?
-No, I think the living room got smaller.

“I’ve had it with your silly remarks about my weight. I’m leaving you!
“But honey, what about our child?”
“What child?!”
“Oh, so you’re not pregnant?”

At a medical check-up:
- Do you do dangerous sports?
- Well, sometimes I talk back at my wife.

A boy asked his father, "Dad, how much does it cost to get married?" Father replied, "I wouldn’t know son, I'm still (not done) paying for it."

“What the hell, are you insane?!”
"What? Why? I thought we agreed we’re going to throw our sorrows overboard on this Caribbean cruise!”
“Yes, Roger, but this was my mother!”

Sugar, can you lend me 15 dollars? I want to buy a case of beer.
- No darling. I wanted to buy myself some make-up because I want to look pretty for you.
- Sugar, that’s exactly why I wanted to buy those beers.

"If I’d known you were this poor, I’d never have married you."
"Don’t pretend I didn’t warn you! How many times did I tell you that you’re everything I have?"

Girl: One day I will marry. A lot of men will be sad that day.

Boy: Wow, how many men do you plan to marry?

How do you know a woman doesn’t value honesty? When she asks you, “How do I look, darling?

Why do men so often die before their wives do?
Because they want to.

A wife complains to her husband: “Just look at that couple down the road, Roger, how lovely they are. He keeps holding her hand, kissing her, holding the door for her … Why can’t you do the same?”

“Are you mad? I barely know the woman!”

A husband asks his wife:
- If I died, would you marry again?
- Oh darling, of course I wouldn’t. I’d go and live with my sister. And if I died, would you remarry?
- No, I think I’d go and live with your sister too.

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SAYINGS ON MARRIAGE

Never get on one knee for a girl who won't get on two for you.

Páginas

BOOK & MARRIGAE

Anthimeria (also known as antimeria) is the usage of a word in a new grammatical form, most often the usage of a noun as a verb. Anthimeria is often used in everyday conversation as a form of slang.

What is verbing or denominalization?

To verb a noun means to use an ordinary noun as a verb in a sentence. One of the most inventive aspects of invention-friendly English is verbing, the denominalization of nouns into verbs. It is often considered informal.

Less common shifts are noun to adjective (S.J. Perlman's 'Beauty Part'), adjective to noun (the Wicked Witch's 'I'll get you, my pretty') and adverb to verb (to down a drink).

The most common form of anthimeria is the use of a noun as if it were a verb. Example: I can keyboard that article this afternoon. (The noun "keyboard" is used as a verb).

What make of car do you drive? Toyota? (brand, marca); to book a hotel room; rainwater can be used to water gardens and trees.

If you shower someone with compliments when they lose weight, how will you be able to be supportive when/if they gain the weight back? (deshacerse en elogios)

mother (verbo): 1. in the sense of give birth to: She had dreamed of mothering a large family. 2. pamper, spoil, overprotect: Don't mother me!; the go-ahead (authorization), a dropout (s.o. who left school, or competition)

Anthimeria in Advertising

1. Let your fingers do the walking. (symbol of the "The Yellow Pages")

2. "Let's Movie," In the slogan for Turner Classic Movies.

These Boots Are Made for Walking (by Nancy Sinatra): Yeah, you keep lyin’ when you oughta be truthin’; You keep samin’ when you oughta be a changin’ Now, what’s right is right but you ain’t been right yet.(in Songs)

Related Terms

Neologism

Verbing

The Importance of Using Anthimeria

Anthimeria and Shakespeare

Anthimeria in Advertising

Examples of Anthimeria

Anadiplosis and Antimetabole

Definition of Paronomasia

Types of Paronomasia

Function of Paronomasia

What is a Paraphrase?

Related Terms

1. Summary

Original Statement: At the party we had delicious red punch, a bunch of different appetizers, and a cookout. Since it was at the park, we played volleyball, went swimming, and sunbathed for fun.

Summary: At the party we enjoyed food and drink and various outdoor activities.

Paraphrase: At the party we drank some punch, ate a handful of appetizers, and had a cookout. The park allowed us to enjoy a number of enjoyable activities from volleyball to swimming to sunbathing.

2. Translation

Original Phrase: That’s life.

Translation into French: C’est la vie.

Paraphrase: That’s just how life goes sometimes.

Definition of Pleonasm

Examples of Pleonasm in Pop Culture

Definition of Periphrasis

Types of Periphrasis

Difference Between Paraphrasis and Periphrasis

Definitions

Anastrophe examples

Anything Yoda said

ANT(H)IMERIA (See also Verb(ing), verbification; conversion, zero derivation)

There is simply too much corruption, too much money available for the taking / asking.

These Boots Are Made for Walking (by Nancy Sinatra): Yeah, you keep lyin’ when you oughta be truthin’; You keep samin’ when you oughta be a changin’ (in Songs)

The most common form of anthimeria is the use of a noun as if it were a verb. Example: I can keyboard that article this afternoon.

* The most common form of anthimeria is the use of a noun as if it were a verb. Example: I can keyboard that article this afternoon. (The noun "keyboard" is used as a verb).

Searching online is no longer “searching.” Now we “Google.”

"Let's Movie," In the slogan for Turner Classic Movies . Anthimeria in Advertising

ANTIMETABOLES (aka Chiasmus)

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

It is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy.

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love.

The best way to have what you want / love, is to want / love what you have *

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”

STRUCTURE POSTER

PRASEOLOGY POSTER

BOOK: Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

FILM: Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get * Love means never having to / not ever having to say you're sorry *

ADS: Let your fingers do the walking * With Bank of America your savings will grow without you(r) having to lift a finger

ONE-LINER: Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway * Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without having to ask / asking a clear question * Men live better than women. First of all, they get married later and secondly, they die earlier

SAYING: Tell me who you go with and I'll tell you who you are * When the going gets tough, the tough get going

RHETORICAL FIGURES POSTER

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FIGURES OF SPEECH

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* The best way to have what you love, is to love what you have.

Much Ado About MARRIAGE (Written by Tom Mc Guire)

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men. Nikola Tesla

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. Friedrich Nietzsche

For the marriage to work, both parties need to be good people. G.M. Rufus

Longed for him. Got him. Shit. Margaret Atwood

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. Ambrose Bierce

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. - Ambrose Bierce

Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. M. West.

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers. Richard Pryor

One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.
Oscar Wilde

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.
Greta Garbo

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you
control it. John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage. Ambrose Bierce,
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary.