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TIL Hendiadys is a figure of speech, typically where a noun and adjective pair are replaced with two nouns joined by a conjunction. Shakespeare was fond of using hendiadys in his plays, for instance, in Macbeth: 'sound and fury' instead of 'furious sound'.

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