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José Clemente Orozco's painting The Demagogue. A demagogue (/ ˈ d ɛ m ə ɡ ɒ ɡ /; from Greek δημαγωγός, a popular leader, a leader of a mob, from δῆμος, people, populace, the commons + ἀγωγός leading, leader), [1] or rabble-rouser, [2] [3] is a political leader in a democracy who gains popularity by arousing the common people against elites, especially through ...
Various sentences using the syllables mā, má, mǎ, mà, and ma are often used to illustrate the importance of tones to foreign learners. One example: Chinese: 妈妈骑马马慢妈妈骂马; pinyin: māma qí mǎ, mǎ màn, māma mà mǎ; lit. 'Mother is riding a horse... the horse is slow... mother scolds the horse'. [37]
Väinämöinen, the central character in Finnish folklore and the main character in the national epic Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot, [2] is an old and wise demigod, who possesses a potent, magical singing voice. [3] Picture of the Väinämöinen's Play by Robert Wilhelm Ekman, 1866. The English term "demi-god" is a calque of the Latin word ...
The declarative sentence is the most common kind of sentence in language, in most situations, and in a way can be considered the default function of a sentence. What this means essentially is that when a language modifies a sentence in order to form a question or give a command, the base form will always be the declarative.
The visible section or "overt" is the syntax that still remains in a sentence word. [15] Within sentence word syntax there are 6 different clause-types: Declarative (making a declaration), exclamative (making an exclamation), vocative (relating to a noun), imperative (a command), locative (relating to a place), and interrogative (asking a ...
Dictionary Stories, by Jez Burrows, is a collection of stories built using sample sentences for words from the New Oxford American Dictionary. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Originally shared on Tumblr , Dictionary Stories was released as a book by Harper Perennial in 2018.
Irish TikTok creator and budding Spotify artist Aimee Carty (@AimeeCarty), 20, posted a video to TikTok on Dec. 6, 2023, singing her newest song, “2 Days Into College,” while accompanying ...
An Accommodating Advertisement and an Awkward Accident, the 427-word winning entry in Tit-Bits Magazine's Christmas 1884 competition for "the longest sensible sentence, every word of which begins with the same letter". [5] Molly Bloom's soliloquy in the James Joyce novel Ulysses (1922) contains a sentence of 3,687 words [6]