the Greek term for understatement. See understatement.
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originally, a drama with music (melos means song), like our musicals. The term has, however,...
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(memo for short) a short note written to one person or to several people within the same...
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the meaning, idea or moral of a story.
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the names of terms we use to talk about language, e.g. phrase, verb, figure of speech.
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a figure of speech used to compare two unlike things without using the words like or as, e.g. He...
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the arrangement of sounds and syllables in poetry into rhythmic patterns of strong and weak...
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a figure of speech in which the term for one thing is applied to another associated with it, e.g...