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sharp (clever) humour. Wit is not necessarily biting or angry, but it can be. Shakespeare wrote that Brevity is the soul of wit (Hamlet). Oscar Wilde was thought to be a great wit. His plays include lines such as this description of a cynic: A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing (Lady Windemereâ??s Fan). Once when Wilde arrived in New York, he told the customs officer, I have nothing to declare except my genius.
a sentence that has two or more main clauses (in other words, two or more finite verbs) that are...
meaning that is not obvious. Subtext is revealed by 'reading between the lines'. Subtext can be...
a figure of speech in which one thing is said and another is to be understood; alternatively,...
a form of subordinate clause that attaches to nouns or noun clauses and start with the relative...
See degrees of comparison of adjectives and degrees of comparison of adverbs.