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  2. Metonymy - Wikipedia

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    Greek scholars contributed to the definition of metonymy. For example, Isocrates worked to define the difference between poetic language and non-poetic language by saying that, "Prose writers are handicapped in this regard because their discourse has to conform to the forms and terms used by the citizens and to those arguments which are precise ...

  3. English language - Wikipedia

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    This has led some scholars to develop the study of English as an auxiliary language. The trademarked Globish uses a relatively small subset of English vocabulary (about 1500 words, designed to represent the highest use in international business English) in combination with the standard English grammar. [146] Other examples include Simple English.

  4. Language - Wikipedia

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    [note 4] Syntactical rules determine how word order and sentence structure is constrained, and how those constraints contribute to meaning. [94] For example, in English, the two sentences "the slaves were cursing the master" and "the master was cursing the slaves" mean different things, because the role of the grammatical subject is encoded by ...

  5. Old English literature - Wikipedia

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    Poetry written in the mid 12th century represents some of the latest post-Norman examples of Old English. [3] Adherence to the grammatical rules of Old English is largely inconsistent in 12th-century work, and by the 13th century the grammar and syntax of Old English had almost completely deteriorated, giving way to the much larger Middle ...

  6. William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Grammar schools varied in quality during the Elizabethan era, but grammar school curricula were largely similar: the basic Latin text was standardised by royal decree, [22] [23] and the school would have provided an intensive education in grammar based upon Latin classical authors. [24] At the age of 18, Shakespeare married 26-year-old Anne ...

  7. Poetry - Wikipedia

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    The iamb, for example, is the most natural form of rhythm in the English language, and generally produces a subtle but stable verse. [62] Scanning meter can often show the basic or fundamental pattern underlying a verse, but does not show the varying degrees of stress , as well as the differing pitches and lengths of syllables.

  8. Sanskrit - Wikipedia

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    Since the vowel is an integral part of the consonants, and given the efficiently compacted, fused consonant cluster morphology for Sanskrit words and grammar, the Brahmi and its derivative writing systems deploy ligatures, diacritics and relative positioning of the vowel to inform the reader how the vowel is related to the consonant and how it ...