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a rhythmic foot consisting of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable, e.g. The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold (Byron).
verse consisting of unrhymed iambic pentameter, e.g. It little profits that an idle king. By...
an unclear sentence with two possible meanings, e.g. I will give you a ring later could mean I...
the process of trying to decipher the meaning of a word, sentence or phrase in order to...
any account of something that happened (events that took place). This can be a verbal report or...
the part of the sentence that receives the action of the verb directly, e.g. in I saw the car, I...