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EXPLETIVE. Madison Saffin. A single word or short phrase, usually interrupting normal syntax, used to lend emphasis to the words immediately proximate to the expletive. This rhetorical device is a tool used to make the sentence more dramatic. Examples.
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EXPLETIVE Madison Saffin
A single word or short phrase, usually interrupting normal syntax, used to lend emphasis to the words immediately proximate to the expletive This rhetorical device is a tool used to make the sentence more dramatic
Examples But the lake was not, in fact, drained by April. It was not, I don’t think, the best example of an expletive. He is, indeed, the son of the famous author.