I'm thinking the style of putting together semantically similar words/phrases is a figure of speech. e.g. “Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far." and "Forty days and Forty nights" Is it? What figure of speech is it?
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Seems like parallel structure.
— Cyfi
Seems like parallel structure.
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