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the social and political circumstances in which a story or action takes place, e.g. Wealthy whites fighting apartheid in the 1980s, French peasants in the late 1700s.
a punctuation mark which links two or more words: step-sister; brother-in-law.
when too much light gets into the camera aperture (opening). This causes a blurred effect, which...
occurs when two words have the same sound, e.g. find, bind; like, bike; house, mouse; blue, few...
when something is extremely unlikely or odd, e.g. Seeing the Prime Minister in a swimming...
See subordinate clause.