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  2. 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 ...

  3. 30 Fancy Words That Will Make You Sound Smarter - AOL

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    The post 30 Fancy Words That Will Make You Sound Smarter appeared first on Reader's Digest. With these fancy words, you can take your vocabulary to a whole new level and impress everyone.

  4. Fancy (given name) - Wikipedia

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    Fancy is a given name in occasional use in the Anglosphere. It is derived from the English vocabulary word fancy, a shortened version of the word fantasy. The word is also used in reference to an unusual, novel idea. [1] The word is also used to describe elaborate ornamentation or an individual preference for a person or object. [2]

  5. Neologism - Wikipedia

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    Verlan (French pronunciation:), (verlan is the reverse of the expression "l'envers") is a type of argot in the French language, featuring inversion of syllables in a word, and is common in slang and youth language. It rests on a long French tradition of transposing syllables of individual words to create slang words.

  6. Title character - Wikipedia

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    The general noun phrase "title character" can be replaced with a descriptive noun or phrase which is then further described using the adjective "titular". For example, the title character of Dracula can be referred to as the book's "titular vampire", [23] the title character of Hamlet is the "titular prince of Denmark", [24] and the title character of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is the "titular ...

  7. Long s - Wikipedia

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    at the end of prefixes, as a connecting s and in compounds at the end of the first part-word, even if the following part-word begins with a long ſ: e.g. Liebe s brief, Arbeit s amt, Donner s tag, Unterſuchung s ergebnis, Hau s tür, Di s poſition, di s harmoniſch, da s ſelbe, Wirt s ſtube, Au s ſicht

  8. List of Latin-script letters - Wikipedia

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    The definition of a Latin-script letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode Standard that has a script property of 'Latin' and the general category of 'Letter'. An overview of the distribution of Latin-script letters in Unicode is given in Latin script in Unicode.

  9. Hilarious Horse Hams It up Instead of Following Script When ...

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    Commenter @goosiewkup joked, "The horse was like “I’m not a background extra, I’m the main character” LOL!" @Kris shared, "IDK what the commercial is for, but I'd be more swayed if that ...