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a figure of speech involving the accidental use of a wrong word which sounds rather like the right word, e.g. In The Rivals (Sheridan), the character of Mrs Malaprop says, He is the very pineapple of politeness. (The writer means pinnacle which would suggest that he is very polite.) See figure of speech.
the repetition of a word or phrase that means exactly the same as the previous word or phrase, e...
a figure of speech used to compare two unlike things without using the words like or as, e.g. He...
(also called run-on line) a line of poetry that does not pause at the end, but runs into the...
a piece of non-fiction prose written for a newspaper, magazine or website
activities you do before reading a text, including skimming, scanning and predicting. See skim,...