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* [[Man in A Kilt]]: All the male Feegles.
* [[Punctuated for Emphasis]]: "''That'' is the root and heart and soul and center of witchcraft, that is. The soul and center! The... soul... and... ''center''!"
* [[Shout
* [[Shrinking Violet]]: Petulia Gristle, who can't seem to speak without an "um..." somewhere in her sentences. She's also so timid that she'll turn her opinions around in order to keep out of conflict with anyone. You could tell her the sky is green and she'd agree with you.
** By the end of the book, Petulia has grown enough to tell Annagramma to shut up and stop ordering people around.
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* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: The Feegles were thrown out of Fairyland for rebelling against the Elf Queen, "and no' fer being totally pished at three in th' afternoon, whatever any scunner might say!"
* [[Synchronized Swarming]]: The ending features this.
* [[Take That, Critics!]]: Annagramma's completely wrongheaded criticism of Miss Level ("A complete amateur. Hasn't really got a clue.") is a paraphrase of the critic Tom Paulin, who once said of Pterry: ''"A complete amateur ... doesn't even write in chapters ... hasn't a clue."''
* [[Talking the Monster To Death]]: {{spoiler|Quite literally. At the end, Tiffany has to help the Hiver find its way into Death.}}
* [[Waxing Lyrical]]: Rob Anybody's complaint when the Feegles are pretending to be a human -- "I talk to my knees but they dinna listen to me." -- is almost but not quite the first line of a famous song from ''[[Paint Your Wagon (Theatre)|Paint Your Wagon]]''. The fact that the song is completely inappropriate to the context just makes it funnier.
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