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  2. Glossary of motion picture terms - Wikipedia

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    B movie B-roll baby plates backlighting backlot background actor See extra. background lighting balloon light barn doors beatscript below-the-line A term derived from the top sheet of a film budget for motion pictures, television programs, industrial films, independent films, student films and documentaries as well as commercials.

  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. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    Usually smaller than the forwards or center. Most common division is between point guards (playmakers) and shooting guards (more often score-first). military division used to help the country after a disaster. in (American) football, one of two offensive positions on either side of the center or a defensive position across from the center (nose ...

  5. BitTorrent - Wikipedia

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    Torrents with multiple trackers can decrease the time it takes to download a file, but also have a few consequences: Poorly implemented [59] clients may contact multiple trackers, leading to more overhead-traffic. Torrents from closed trackers suddenly become downloadable by non-members, as they can connect to a seed via an open tracker.

  6. Analogy - Wikipedia

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    Analogy is a comparison or correspondence between two things (or two groups of things) because of a third element that they are considered to share. [1]In logic, it is an inference or an argument from one particular to another particular, as opposed to deduction, induction, and abduction.

  7. Metaphor and metonymy - Wikipedia

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    [11] In other words, a condensation is when more than one displacement occurs towards the same idea. In 1957, Jacques Lacan , inspired by an article by linguist Roman Jakobson , argued that the unconscious has the same structure of a language, and that condensation and displacement are equivalent to the poetic functions of metaphor and metonymy .

  8. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. 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 ...

  9. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    Simile: comparison between two things using like or as. Snowclone : alteration of cliché or phrasal template . Syllepsis : the use of a word in its figurative and literal sense at the same time or a single word used in relation to two other parts of a sentence although the word grammatically or logically applies to only one.