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(grade school, the grades) elementary school see also Grade Point Average: grade (other) (n.) a rating, degree, or level; (v.) to lay out in grades [US meaning generated grade separation and the idiom make the grade] slope, gradient, or elevation; also ground level ("at grade", "over grade"); hence grade crossing (UK: level crossing)
The Companion achieved "classic status" with the expanded fifth edition edited by novelist and scholar Margaret Drabble, [1] and the book was often referred to as "The Drabble". [2] Harvey's entries concerning Sir Walter Scott, much admired by Drabble in the introduction to the fifth edition, were reduced for reasons of space, in the sixth edition.
[4] [5] [6] Student writers find motivation especially difficult because they are writing for a teacher or for a grade, instead of a real audience. [7] Often teachers try to find a real audience for students by asking them to read to younger classes or to parents, by posting writing for others to read, by writing a blog, or by writing on real ...
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
When the antiphrasal use is very common, the word can become an auto-antonym, [3] having opposite meanings depending on context. For example, Spanish dichoso [ 4 ] originally meant "fortunate, blissful" as in tierra dichosa , "fortunate land", but it acquired the ironic and colloquial meaning of "infortunate, bothersome" as in ¡Dichosas moscas ...
The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).
English Literature, 1500–1600: Arthur F. Kinney English Literature, 1650–1740: Steven N. Zwicker English Literature, 1740–1830: Thomas Keymer and Jon Mee English Literature, 1830–1914: Joanne Shattock English Novelists: Adrian Poole English Poetry, Donne to Marvell: Thomas N. Corns English Poets: Claude Rawson English Renaissance Drama
In literary criticism, close reading is the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of a text. A close reading emphasizes the single and the particular over the general, via close attention to individual words, the syntax, the order in which the sentences unfold ideas, as well as formal structures.