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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 ...
Such adjective phrases can be integrated into the clause (e.g., Love dies young) or detached from the clause as a supplement (e.g., Happy to see her, I wept). Adjective phrases functioning as predicative adjuncts are typically interpreted with the subject of the main clause being the predicand of the adjunct (i.e., "I was happy to see her"). [11]
An eponymous adjective is an adjective which has been derived from the name of a person, real or fictional. Persons from whose name the adjectives have been derived are called eponyms. [1] Following is a list of eponymous adjectives in English.
List of feature films with bisexual characters; List of feature films with gay characters; List of feature films with intersex characters; List of feature films with lesbian characters; List of feature films with transgender characters; List of film franchises with LGBT characters
List of Where the Red Fern Grows characters; List of characters played by multiple actors in the same film; List of fictional cats in film; List of fictional primates in film; List of films with LGBT characters; List of The Godfather series characters; List of minor characters in The Matrix series; List of original characters in The Hobbit film ...
List of The Saddle Club characters; List of Seikai characters; List of Septimus Heap characters; List of A Series of Unfortunate Events characters; List of The Shapeshifter characters; List of Shiloh characters; List of So I'm a Spider, So What characters; List of A Song of Ice and Fire characters; List of The Southern Vampire Mysteries characters
List of The A-Team characters; List of Adrian Mole characters; List of fictional anarchists; List of angels in fiction; List of fictional Antichrists; List of fictional assassins and bounty hunters; List of autistic fictional characters
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