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the direct, literal meaning of a word, rather than the ideas or emotions associated with a word, e.g. The denoted meaning of blue means the colour blue.
a word or phrase that comes from another language, e.g. The veld (Afrikaans, meaning field) is...
a report by the person who saw (were a witness to) the event that is being reported on. An eye-...
in literature, this refers to the cultural context in which a story is told, e.g. among Arab...
an activity and a skill used for pleasure, to gather information, communicate, actively make...
(also called an Elizabethan sonnet) a sonnet consisting of three quatrains (four-line stanzas)...