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a new word, often invented to explain a new technology, e.g. They say that shale gas will be extracted from the earth by fracking.
when the subject of the sentence performs the action expressed by the verb, e.g. The dog bit...
a figure of speech in which a harsh fact is expressed in a gentle way, e.g. He passed away.
a unit of meter or unit of rhythm. See meter and rhythm.
rhyming words at the end of the lines in a poem. Some common patterns for end rhyme are
...(also called dissolve) when one shot dissolves (changes) gradually into another shot, so that...