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Contessa, a 2018 Indian film; Contessa, a 2018 Philippine television series; The Contessa, a character in the game show Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? The Contessa, a villain from the Sly Cooper video game franchise; see Sly 2: Band of Thieves; Contessa, a fictional ship the TV series Chuck; see "Chuck Versus the Push Mix"
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 ...
Conte comes from the French word conter, "to relate". [2] The French term conte encompasses a wide range of narrative forms that are not limited to written accounts. No clear English equivalent for conte exists in English as it includes folktales, fairy tales, short stories, oral tales, [3] and to lesser extent fables. [4]
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A more recent proposal is that Kandicha was derived from a real historical figure, namely a Moroccan "countess" (contessa) from el Jadida who helped resist the Portuguese by seducing soldiers, who were then killed by Moroccan fighters lying in wait. [8] [9] It is believed that she began resisting Colonialism after her husband was killed. [10]
Arriving in the midst of the cold war, it invented and continues to define the Hollywood action movie. There have been groovy gadgets, sensational set pieces, luscious locales, sinister ...
A definition is a statement of the meaning of a term (a word, phrase, or other set of symbols). [1] [2] Definitions can be classified into two large categories: intensional definitions (which try to give the sense of a term), and extensional definitions (which try to list the objects that a term describes). [3]
A defining vocabulary is a list of words used by lexicographers to write dictionary definitions. The underlying principle goes back to Samuel Johnson's notion that words should be defined using 'terms less abstruse than that which is to be explained', [1] and a defining vocabulary provides the lexicographer with a restricted list of high-frequency words which can be used for producing simple ...