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(also called dissolve) when one shot dissolves (changes) gradually into another shot, so that...
the inappropriate combination of two metaphors, e.g. My love is a rose who is up to her neck in...
a paragraph in which the topic sentence is somewhere in the middle of the paragraph.
a sentence in which the main clause is in the middle of the sentence, e.g. Although it is late,...