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1.     Polyptoton is a figure of speech that involves the repetition of words of the same root used in the same sentence with a variety of differing contexts, inflection and voice; Derived from the Greek word polúptōtos, meaning “having many cases”. This device is often used to embellish the poetry and poetic sentences with musicality and tone. Ex: "I dreamed a dream in times gone by.", "The bread rolls rolled down the counter.", "They waited impatiently in the waiting room." Read more stories related to  Vocabulary !  

Spanish – Despacito German – langsam Italian – lentamente Japanese – Yukkuri Sanskrit - शनैः शनैः (shanaḥ shanaḥ) Basque – Poliki poliki Polish – powoli Nepali – Bistari bistari Tamil - Metuvaka Cebuano – Hinayhinay Dogri – Aasta Finnish – hitaasti Swahili – Polepole Sesotho – butle butle Filipino – dahan dahan Read more stories related to  Vocabulary !

Once Robby visited a theatre with his family to attend a magic show. During one act, the magician called him on the stage as a volunteer. Robby jumped ahead, not knowing that this magician was an evil one. At first, the magician created an artificial clone that looked just like Robby. While the audience cheered at his incredible trick, he pretended that he was going to place a box over the cloned Robby. But instead, he placed the real Robby inside a box. Unaware and shocked, Robby suddenly found himself in a place where there was nothing but darkness all around, except for a tiny ray of light that reached the box from somewhere. As he noticed, the tiny ray of light revealed a giant spider crawling on the wall opposite to where Robby was slouched on his knees. Since the room was not very large and there wasn’t much distance between the walls, Robby shivered with fright. The giant, gleaming black tentacles of the spider were slowly moving towards him through the wall. At this moment, he ...