Mooreeffoc, also known as the Mooreeffoc effect, refers to what stylisticians call "defamiliarization". G. K. Chesterton used the phrase in his 1906 book Charles Dickens: A Critical Study to "denote the queerness of things that have become trite, when they are seen suddenly from a new angle".
Mooreeffoc, also known as the Mooreeffoc effect, refers to what stylisticians call "defamiliarization". G. K. Chesterton used the phrase in his 1906 book Charles Dickens: A Critical Study to "denote the queerness of things that have become trite, when they are seen suddenly from a new angle".
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