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an effect in which one shot moves across the screen and over another shot as though it were being pulled across the screen by a huge vertical line. The wipe is usually used in credit sequences at the beginning or end of films rather than in the film itself. A wipe in the middle of a film would be used only for a deliberate effect and would be noticeable to the viewer as the technique being used is very obvious.
a well-known saying, which is generally taken to be true and contains some kind of wisdom about...
the ideas, emotions and images associated with words. E.g. the house, dwelling, home, residence...
a figure of speech in which gross exaggeration is expressed, e.g. We had thousands of guests...
a paragraph in which the topic sentence is somewhere in the middle of the paragraph.
words formed by linking two or more words by means of hyphens, e.g. mother-in-law.