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a style of writing and speaking that is descriptive, e.g. The muddy brown waters of the great Orange River churned past the bridge, looking for all the world like the product of a demented water machine stuck in overdrive.
See colloquialism.
verse consisting of unrhymed iambic pentameter, e.g. It little profits that an idle king. By...
the use of symbols to represent something, e.g. H signifies that a hospital is nearby. Each...
a piece of non-fiction prose written for a newspaper, magazine or website
a type of short story, essentially for children, involving fantasy characters, such as fairies...