Although I have a couple of rhyming dictionaries, that one sounds like a good investment. The "dictionary" I had in mind, though, isn't for finding rhymes, but for finding the names of various tropes that one comes across but can't identify. For example, say you come across "I gave her the ring and she gave me the finger": the book somehow helps you identify the trope as an example of syllepsis, and then gives you an explanation and further examples. It would be sort of a "Wildflowers of the Western United States," but for rhetorical tropes. As I say, I don't have a clue to how it could be arranged. A big table or nomenclature chart? Maybe some enterprising 'spherian will take on the task of devising it.
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