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  2. Clipping (morphology) - Wikipedia

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    They typically originate as synonyms [3] within the jargon or slang of an in-group, such as schools, army, police, and the medical profession. For example, exam (ination), math (ematics), and lab (oratory) originated in school slang ; spec (ulation) and tick (et = credit) in stock-exchange slang; and vet (eran) and cap (tain) in army slang.

  3. Cut-up technique - Wikipedia

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    The Tristan Tzara Arcade is a collection of Cut-up pieces composed from text found in the public domain. These pieces can be further arranged by the reader using an automated (jQuery script) reTypesetting function (which illustrates how possible variant compositions can be achieved using the Cut-up technique).

  4. Body text - Wikipedia

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    Body text or body copy is the text forming the main content of a book, magazine, web page, or any other printed or digital work. This is as a contrast to both additional components such as headings, images, charts, footnotes etc. on each page, and also the pages of front matter that form the introduction to a book.

  5. List of narrative techniques - Wikipedia

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    Name Definition Example Setting as a form of symbolism or allegory: The setting is both the time and geographic location within a narrative or within a work of fiction; sometimes, storytellers use the setting as a way to represent deeper ideas, reflect characters' emotions, or encourage the audience to make certain connections that add complexity to how the story may be interpreted.

  6. Telegram style - Wikipedia

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    This telegram was sent by Orville Wright in December 1903 from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, following the first successful airplane flight.. Telegram style, telegraph style, telegraphic style, or telegraphese [1] is a clipped way of writing which abbreviates words and packs information into the smallest possible number of words or characters.

  7. Stylistics - Wikipedia

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    Stylistics, a branch of applied linguistics, is the study and interpretation of texts of all types, but particularly literary texts, and spoken language with regard to their linguistic and tonal style, where style is the particular variety of language used by different individuals in different situations and settings.

  8. List of writing genres - Wikipedia

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    According to Alastair Fowler, the following elements can define genres: organizational features (chapters, acts, scenes, stanzas); length; mood; style; the reader's role (e.g., in mystery works, readers are expected to interpret evidence); and the author's reason for writing (an epithalamion is a poem composed for marriage). [3]

  9. Writing style - Wikipedia

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    In literature, writing style is the manner of expressing thought in language characteristic of an individual, period, school, or nation. [1] As Bryan Ray notes, however, style is a broader concern, one that can describe "readers' relationships with, texts, the grammatical choices writers make, the importance of adhering to norms in certain contexts and deviating from them in others, the ...