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  2. Split Second (1992 film) - Wikipedia

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    Split Second is a 1992 science fiction action horror film directed by Tony Maylam and Ian Sharp, [5] and written by Gary Scott Thompson.A co-production between the United States and the United Kingdom, the film stars Rutger Hauer as a burnt-out police detective obsessively hunting down the mysterious serial killer who killed his partner several years prior.

  3. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Literature survey - Wikipedia

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    In the tertiary education system of the United States, a literature survey is (typically) a sophomore-level class introducing students to major works of literature of a given culture, language, and period. Literature taught in those classes is often the canonical material of the culture, language, and period; similar classes are taught by ...

  5. Cloze test - Wikipedia

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    The definition of success in a given cloze test varies, depending on the broader goals behind the exercise. Assessment may depend on whether the exercise is objective (i.e. students are given a list of words to use in a cloze) or subjective (i.e. students are to fill in a cloze with words that would make a given sentence grammatically correct).

  6. Split Second (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Split Second is a crime fiction novel written by American writer David Baldacci. This is the first novel in the King and Maxwell book series . The book was published on September 30, 2003, by Grand Central Publishing .

  7. Language survey - Wikipedia

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    Methods used in language surveys depend on the questions that the survey is trying to answer. Methods used include collecting word lists, [7] playing recorded texts to assess comprehension, [8] [9] sentence repetition tests, [10] questionnaires, [11] group and individual interviews, retelling of stories, [12] direct observation, [13] pointing to pictures after listening to instructions, [14 ...

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  9. Sentence (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    A major sentence is a regular sentence; it has a subject and a predicate, e.g. "I have a ball." In this sentence, one can change the persons, e.g. "We have a ball." However, a minor sentence is an irregular type of sentence that does not contain a main clause, e.g. "Mary!", "Precisely so.", "Next Tuesday evening after it gets dark."