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a style of writing and speaking that is dramatises events, e.g. Horses drowned, houses washed away, and panic everywhere: that was the scene that greeted Upington mayor, Sid Pretorious, as he battled his way down the High Street in the frantic first hours of daylight on that fateful Saturday morning.
to revise and improve a piece of writing by revising content, sentence and paragraph structure...
the use of many more words than are necessary.
events that take place in a story, either in literature or film. Action describes what...
a list at the front of a book giving the page numbers and titles of chapters and other features...
a sentence with two or more main clauses, e.g. I will go, but you must stay.