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title of volume I, book 5, chapter XI of Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. Christus Rex: Christ the King: A Christian title for Jesus. Cicero dicit fac hoc: Cicero says do it: Said by some to be the origin of the game command and title Simon says. [11] Cicero pro domo sua Cicero's speech in 57 BC to regain his confiscated house
Commonwealth Literature: An Essay Towards the Re-definition of a Popular/Counter Culture Alamgir Hashmi ; The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels ; Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin - Carl Darling Buck ; Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools - Alfred Aho, et al.
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
Literature review: a summary and careful comparison of previous academic work published on a specific topic; Research article or research paper; Scientific: scholarly publication reporting original empirical and theoretical work in the natural or social sciences. Technical report; Textbook: authoritative and detailed factual description of a thing
Adianoeta – a phrase carrying two meanings: an obvious meaning and a second, more subtle and ingenious one (more commonly known as double entendre). Alliteration – the use of a series of two or more words beginning with the same letter. Amphiboly – a sentence that may be interpreted in more than one way due to ambiguous structure.
Once you factor in how many books appear on the typical set of shelves—and the back-and-forth necessary to clear the rights, compounded by the tight turnarounds of TV shows—it becomes a whole ...
Incunabula is commonly used in English to refer to the earliest stage or origin of something, and especially to copies of books that predate the spread of the printing press c. AD 1500. ab initio: from the beginning: i.e., "from the outset", referring to an inquiry or investigation. Ab initio mundi means "from the beginning of the world".
An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. [1] Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym, with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite.