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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 ...
The forms (conformations) of letters have usually followed traditional norms of the times and places where correspondence took place. Aspects such as where to place the elements ( salutation , body of letter, valediction /closing, sender's address, recipient's address, date, and so on) were somewhat standardized albeit also usually flexible in ...
know the meaning of words, understand the meaning of a word from a discourse context, follow the organization of a passage and to identify antecedents and references in it, draw inferences from a passage about its contents, identify the main thought of a passage, ask questions about the text, answer questions asked in a passage, visualize the text,
Level of detail in writing, sometimes known as level of abstraction, refers to three concepts: the precision in using the right words to form phrases, clauses and sentences; [1] the generality of statements; and the organisational strategy in which authors arrange ideas according to a common topic in the hierarchy of detail.
Currently, contemporary forms of ‘Arts and Letters’ are found in publications and online platforms including “Literary Letters: Correspondence as Art Letters” [12] which is serving as a platform for “true stories”, “literary discourse” and criticism of the present art scene. By extension, the online magazine has labelled itself ...
It was founded as an academic correspondence magazine, in which scholars and interested amateurs could exchange knowledge on folklore, literature and history. The format consisted of "Notes" (miscellaneous findings of correspondents that they and the editors considered of interest to the readership), and "Queries" (and responses to queries ...
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
1:1 correspondence, an older name for a bijection; Multivalued function; Correspondence (algebraic geometry), between two algebraic varieties; Corresponding sides and corresponding angles, between two polygons; Correspondence (category theory), the opposite of a profunctor; Correspondence (von Neumann algebra) or bimodule, a type of Hilbert space