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Proparalepsis

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Proparalepsis: Proparalepses): A type of neologism that occurs by adding an extra syllable or letters to the end of a word. For instance, Shakespeare in Hamlet creates the word climature by adding the end of the word temperature to climate (1.1.12). The wizardly windbag Glyndwr (Glendower) proclaims that he 'can call spirits from the vasty deep' in 1 Henry IV (3.1.52). We would expect him to speak of the 'vast deep' normally. Proparalepsis is an example of a rhetorical scheme. (plural

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