disquisition, explication, interjection, tangent, excursus, non sequitur, interlude, anecdote, ramble, wordiness, terseness, facetiousness, incoherency, pedantry, factoid, cogitation, exegesis, generalization, prolixity, reminiscence, inanity, foofaraw, segue, infelicities, intro, didacticism, circumlocution, disjunction, anthropomorphism, elision, tautology, metafiction, coda, philosophizing, monosyllable, conceit, meandering, incongruity, journalese, panegyric, caesura, reverie, revisionism, postscript, copout, archaism, trifle, shavian, endnote, epigraphs, dichotomy, vignette, precis, juxtaposition, existentialist philosophy, onanism, musings, simile, sophistic, dilettantism, ironist, lexis, idiosyncrasy, philosophic, paraphrase, haphazardness, tidbit, prefatory, riff, logy, teleology, preface, repetitiveness, split infinitive, kinkiness, versification, hegelian, reductionism, literalism, rephrasing, syllogisms, alliteration, koan, historicism, pleasantry, billet doux, narrative, flashback, apologia, foolery, bildungsroman, dubiousness, unintelligibility, silliness, rumination, intermezzo, deification, piggishness, transmogrification, pompousness, weirdness, ascription, detour, digressions, detours, footnote, parenthesis, interruption, hitch, preamble, excerpt, foray, lapse, addendum, intermission, lapses, loophole, preliminaries, clarifications

red herring

recall

content, journey, journeying, message, subject matter, substance, turn, turning

aside, deflection, deflexion, deviation, divagation, diversion, excursion, excursus, parenthesis