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a mark in a written text which assists the reader to make sense of a text, e.g. a full stop or comma causes the reader to stop or pause. See apostrophe, brackets, colon, comma, dash, ellipsis, exclamation mark, full stop, hyphen, inverted commas, question mark, semi-colon.
the act of inferring meaning. See infer.
See film script and play script.
a word or phrase that comes from another language, e.g. The veld (Afrikaans, meaning field) is...
playful rhyming verse consisting of five lines in an aabba pattern, e.g. Edward Learâ??s...
(also called a memoir) a book about the life of a person, written by that person.