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meaning that is not obvious. Subtext is revealed by 'reading between the lines'. Subtext can be subtle (well hidden) or fairly obvious. Subtexts can also be important or trivial, e.g. if every bad person in a film is a smoker and every good person is a non-smoker, then the subtext is that smokers are bad people.
to look for particular information in a text, e.g. finding a name in a telephone book, searching...
a word or phrase that comes from another language, e.g. The veld (Afrikaans, meaning field) is...
a subordinate clause that takes the place and role of an adjective, e.g. The game that they...
a literary genre consisting of an arrangement of meaningful and musical words. Most poems take...
when one shot is faded to black, and then the next shot is faded in. A director might be showing...