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(1) What is the title of the novel in which an English family tries to abduct a child from its home in Italy so that it can be raised in England? Who is the author? (2) Which female American author has written a short story in which wealthy elderly people are marooned on a tropical desert island so that their grown-up children can inherit their ...
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 ...
St. Loo is a resort town on the south English coast, commonly referred to as the English Riviera and is a setting for several Agatha Christie stories. St. Mary Mead, England Agatha Christie: Miss Marple series An earlier mention of St. Mary Mead exists in the Poirot novel The Mystery of the Blue Train.
The German verb ausleihen, the Dutch verb lenen, the Afrikaans verb leen, the Polish verb pożyczyć, the Russian verb одолжить (odolžítʹ), the Finnish verb lainata, and the Esperanto verb prunti can mean either "to lend" or "to borrow", with case, pronouns, and mention of persons making the sense clear.
Oxymorons in the narrow sense are a rhetorical device used deliberately by the speaker and intended to be understood as such by the listener. In a more extended sense, the term "oxymoron" has also been applied to inadvertent or incidental contradictions, as in the case of "dead metaphors" ("barely clothed" or "terribly good").
Bosley Crowther (bylined B.R.C) praised the film in his July 9, 1937, review for The New York Times: “The Baroness Orczy, one of light literature’s most deserving noblewomen, has seldom if ever enjoyed handsomer screen treatment...the producers have breathed debonair life into a shopworn tale of intrigue and espionage, opening the action ...
An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.
Reference work: publication that one can refer to for confirmed facts, such as a dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, almanac, or atlas. Self-help: a work written with information intended to instruct or guide readers on solving personal problems. Obituary; Travel: literature containing elements of the outdoors, nature, adventure, and traveling.