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  • n  a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things

  • Periphrasis"The putting of things in a roundabout way.
  • The severest test of the novel reader is not the interior-decorating lady author whose every point is petit; nor is it the literary bedroom peeper of the huff-puff-periphrasis .
  • Unlike most writers, Cunninghame Graham accurately characterized the mood of his own work: "I strove to write down that which I saw without periphrasis, sans flag-wagging, and .

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