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a mark in a written text which assists the reader to make sense of a text, e.g. a full stop or comma causes the reader to stop or pause. See apostrophe, brackets, colon, comma, dash, ellipsis, exclamation mark, full stop, hyphen, inverted commas, question mark, semi-colon.
a figure of speech that shows an apparent contradiction which can be resolved, e.g. I must be...
a shot that shows a scene (such as a landscape or buildings) from a distance, with no particular...
(also called a misrelated participle or a dangling participle) a participle that is not related...
See kinaesthetic imagery.