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instructions to actors and directors of a play or film. These directions appear in a film or play script but are not the words to be said by the actors. Rather they tell the actors how to say the words, e.g. in a rage with anger, what to do with their bodies while they are talking, and where all the actors should be doing at different times during any scene. Stage directions also include details about how the stage should be arranged, e.g. a dishevelled country pub with a bar counter with three half-broken bar stools perched up against it. In the corner is a brightly coloured jukebox, etc.
a figure of speech that shows an apparent contradiction which can be resolved, e.g. I must be...
the most important idea in an essay, usually contained in the topic sentence of each paragraph,...
the attitude of the writer to the subject being written about. The mood of a piece of writing is...
(also called straight angle) a shot in photography or filmmaking taken with the camera held at...
a word group (phrase) that takes the place and role of an adverb. There are several different...