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(also called bathos) a figure of speech in which there is a sudden change in style from the...

a figure of speech in which an apparent contradiction is made, and in which the two contrasting...

a sentence in which two clauses are balanced against each other, e.g. Man proposes, God...

a word opposite in meaning to another word, e.g. good is an antonym of bad....

in language: a punctuation mark used to show either possession, e.g. the girl's bags (...

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