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a line of poetry consisting of five feet, with each foot consisting of an unstressed syllable, followed by a stressed syllable. This is the meter generally used by Shakespeare and many other poets, e.g. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day (Gray).
a style of writing and speaking that sensationalises events, e.g. As the blood-stained housewife...
the action of creating characters and presenting them to the reader.
the most important idea in an essay, usually contained in the topic sentence of each paragraph,...
a shortened form of a word, e.g. Mr for Mister, st for street, Prof. ...
a shot in photography or filmmaking taken from above the subject and viewing the subject at an...