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An instance noun (nomen vicis or اِسْمُ مَرَّةِ ismu marrati) is a noun that indicates a single occurrence of an action, and uses the suffix -ah: e.g. ضَرْبَة ḍarbah "blow" (compare ضَرْب ḍarb "act of hitting, striking") or اِنْتِفَاضَة intifāḍah "intifada, an uprising" (compare اِنْتِفَاض ...
"True eloquence," Oliver Goldsmith says, "Does not consist ... in saying great things in a sublime style, but in a simple style; for there is, properly speaking, no such thing as a sublime style, the sublimity lies only in the things; and when they are not so, the language may be turgid, affected, metaphorical, but not affecting."
Eloquence or eloquent may also refer to: Eloquence (Bill Evans album) Eloquence (Oscar Peterson album) Eloquence (Wolfgang Flür album) Eloquence, Internet and Wikipedia pen name of Erik Möller (born 1979), German freelance journalist, software developer and author
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase is a non-fiction book by Mark Forsyth published in 2013. [1] [2] [3] The book explains classical rhetoric, dedicating each chapter to a rhetorical figure with examples of its use, particularly in the works of William Shakespeare.
Classical Arabic or Quranic Arabic (Arabic: العربية الفصحى, romanized: al-ʻArabīyah al-Fuṣḥā, lit. 'the most eloquent classic Arabic') is the standardized literary form of Arabic used from the 7th century and throughout the Middle Ages, most notably in Umayyad and Abbasid literary texts such as poetry, elevated prose and oratory, and is also the liturgical language of Islam.
Nouns following exceptive particles in non-negative sentences. The noun following the absolute, or categorical, negation لَا lā "No". For singular nouns and broken plurals, it is marked as a usually unwritten فَتْحَة fatḥah (-a) for the definite or fatḥah + nunation (-an) for the indefinite.
Elegant variation is the use of synonyms to avoid repetition or add variety. The term was introduced in 1906 by H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler in The King's English.In their meaning of the term, they focus particularly on instances when the word being avoided is a noun or its pronoun.
Proper nouns are a class of words such as December, Canada, Leah, and Johnson that occur within noun phrases (NPs) that are proper names, [2] though not all proper names contain proper nouns (e.g., General Electric is a proper name with no proper noun).