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  2. Illustration - Wikipedia

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    Illustration also means providing an example; either in writing or in picture form. The origin of the word "illustration" is late Middle English (in the sense ‘illumination; spiritual or intellectual enlightenment’): via Old French from Latin illustratio (n-), from the verb illustrare .

  3. Erotica - Wikipedia

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    Illustration for Fanny Hill (1748) by Édouard-Henri Avril. Erotica is art, literature or photography that deals substantively with subject matter that is erotic, sexually stimulating or sexually arousing. Some critics regard pornography as a type of erotica, but many consider it to be different.

  4. Parable - Wikipedia

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    The word parable comes from the Greek παραβολή (parabolē), literally "throwing" (bolē) "alongside" (para-), by extension meaning "comparison, illustration, analogy." [5] [6] It was the name given by Greek rhetoricians to an illustration in the form of a brief fictional narrative.

  5. Jabberwocky - Wikipedia

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    Some of the words that Carroll created, such as "chortled" and "galumphing", have entered the English language and are listed in the Oxford English Dictionary. The word "jabberwocky" itself has come to refer to nonsense language. In American Sign Language, Eric Malzkuhn invented the sign for "chortled".

  6. Etymology - Wikipedia

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    Etymology (/ ˌ ɛ t ɪ ˈ m ɒ l ə dʒ i /, ET-im-OL-ə-jee [1]) is the study of the origin and evolution of words—including their constituent units of sound and meaning—across time. [2] In the 21st century a subfield within linguistics, etymology has become a more rigorously scientific study. [1]

  7. Cartoon - Wikipedia

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    Christ's Charge to Peter, one of the Raphael Cartoons, c. 1516, a full-size cartoon design for a tapestry. In fine art, a cartoon (from Italian: cartone and Dutch: karton—words describing strong, heavy paper or pasteboard and cognates for carton) is a full-size drawing made on sturdy paper as a design or modello for a painting, stained glass, or tapestry.

  8. Caricature - Wikipedia

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    Thus, the word "caricature" essentially means a "loaded portrait". [ 2 ] In 18th-century usage, 'caricature' was used for any image that made use of exaggerated or distorted features; thus both for comic portraits of specific people and for general social and political comic illustrations such as the satires of James Gillray , Thomas Rowlandson ...

  9. Comics - Wikipedia

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    Harvey saw McCloud's definition as excluding single-panel cartoons, [124] and objected to McCloud's de-emphasizing verbal elements, insisting "the essential characteristic of comics is the incorporation of verbal content". [110] Aaron Meskin saw McCloud's theories as an artificial attempt to legitimize the place of comics in art history. [103]