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==Styles employed== The English translation by Barbara Wright (reprinted in paperback in 1981) consists of the tale retold in the following 'styles'; where the original has been adapted (rather than translated), the original title is given in italics. {| |valign=top| *Notation *Double Entry *[[Litotes]] *[[Metaphor]]ically *[[Wiktionary:retrograde|Retrograde]] *Surprises *Dream *[[Wiktionary:prognostication|Prognostication]] *[[Synchysis]] *The Rainbow *[[Word games|Word Game]] *Hesitation *Precision *The [[Subjectivity|Subjective]] Side *Another Subjectivity *[[Narrative]] *Word Composition *Negativities *[[Animism]] *[[Anagram]]s *[[Wiktionary:distinguo|Distinguo]] *[[Homeoptoton|Homeoptotes]] *Official Letter *[[Blurb]] *[[Onomatopoeia]] *Logical Analysis |valign=top| *Insistence *Ignorance *[[Past tense|Past]] *[[Present tense|Present]] *[[Wiktionary:reported speech|Reported Speech]] *[[Passive tense|Passive]] *[[Alexandrine]]s *[[Polyptoton|Polyptotes]] *[[Apheresis (linguistics)|Apheresis]] *[[Apocope]] *[[Syncope (phonetics)|Syncope]] *Speaking Personally *Exclamations *You Know *Noble *[[Cockney#Cockney speech|Cockney]] (''Vulgaire'') *[[Cross examination]] *[[Comedy (drama)|Comedy]] *[[Aside]]s *[[Parachesis]] *[[Ghost|Spectral]] *[[Philosophic]] *[[Apostrophe (figure of speech)|Apostrophe]] *Awkward *Casual *[[Bias]]ed |valign=top| *[[Sonnet]] *[[Olfactory]] *[[Gustatory]] *[[Touch|Tactile]] *[[Visual]] *[[Sound|Auditory]] *[[Telegraphic]] *[[Ode]] *Permutations by Groups <br>of 2, 3, 4, and 5 letters *Permutations by Groups <br>of 5, 6, 7, and 8 letters *Permutations by Groups <br>of 9, 10, 11, and 12 letters *Permutations by Groups <br>of 1, 2, 3 and 4 words *[[Hellenistic art|Hellenisms]] *[[Reactionary]] *[[Haiku]] *[[Free Verse]] *[[Feminine]] *[[Gallicism]]s (''[[Anglicism]]es'') *[[Prothesis (linguistics)|Prothesis]] *[[Epenthesis]] *[[Paragoge]] *[[Parts of speech]] *[[Metathesis (linguistics)|Metathesis]] *[[Consequentialism|Consequences]] <br>(''Par devant par derrière'') |valign=top| *[[Proper nouns|Proper Names]] *[[Rhyming Slang]] (''[[Loucherbem]]'') *[[Back Slang]] (''[[Javanais]]'') *[[Antiphrasis]] *[[Dog Latin]] *More or Less *[[Opera]] English (''[[List of English words of Italian origin|Italianism]]es'') *For ze Frrensh (''Poor lay Zanglay'') *[[Spoonerism]]s *[[Botanical]] *[[Medical]] *[[Abusive]] *[[Gastronomical]] *[[Zoological]] *Futile *[[Modernist literature|Modern Style]] *[[Probabilism|Probabilist]] *[[Portrait (literature)|Portrait]] *[[Mathematical]] *[[West Indian]] (''[[Pays (France)|Pays]]an'') *[[Interjection]]s *Precious *Unexpected |}
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