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  2. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    An adage expresses a well-known and simple truth in a few words. [8] (Similar to aphorism and proverb.) adjective Any word or phrase which modifies a noun or pronoun, grammatically added to describe, identify, or quantify the related noun or pronoun. [9] [10] adverb A descriptive word used to modify a verb, adjective, or another adverb.

  3. Cut-up technique - Wikipedia

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    [18] Another industrial music pioneer, Al Jourgensen of Ministry, named Burroughs and his cut-up technique as the most important influence on how he approached the use of samples. [ 19 ] Many Elephant 6 bands used decoupe as well, one prominent example of this is seen in " Pree-Sisters Swallowing A Donkey's Eye " by Neutral Milk Hotel .

  4. Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames: The d'Antin Manuscript

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    Roussel, in writing his novel Locus Solus and elsewhere, used a technique that involved putting together in different contexts words that sound similar. The result produces unexpected and even irrational new meanings, and is a bit similar to van Rooten’s technique when he wrote Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames. The two books differ in that ...

  5. Frindle - Wikipedia

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    Frindle is a middle-grade American children's novel written by Andrew Clements, illustrated by Brian Selznick, and published by Aladdin Paperbacks in 1996. It was the winner of the 2016 Phoenix Award, which is granted by the Children's Literature Association annually to recognize one English-language children's book published twenty years earlier that did not win a major literary award at the ...

  6. Commonplace book - Wikipedia

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    A commonplace book from the mid-seventeenth century. Commonplace books (or commonplaces) are a way to compile knowledge, usually by writing information into books.They have been kept from antiquity, and were kept particularly during the Renaissance and in the nineteenth century.

  7. EXCLUSIVE: Riley Keough almost took out this controversial ...

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    While writing, Keough said she would “take in and put out” some out stories, deciding what to include. “If this is in here, then this maybe is what will be said,” she remembered thinking ...

  8. Katie Holmes Just Wore a Polarizing '80s Throwback Style ...

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    The actress, 45, stepped out in New York City ahead of Thanksgiving Day, sporting the polarizing '80s bottoms. Holmes, who is currently starring in Broadway’s revival of Our Town, ...

  9. List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English - Wikipedia

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    This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.