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  2. Imagery - Wikipedia

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    Imagery is visual symbolism, or figurative language that evokes a mental image or other kinds of sense impressions, especially in a literary work, but also in other activities such as. Imagery in literature can also be instrumental in conveying tone. [1]

  3. Artistic language - Wikipedia

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    An artistic language, or artlang, [1] [2] [3] is a constructed language designed for aesthetic and phonetic pleasure. Constructed languages can be artistic to the extent that artists use it as a source of creativity in art, poetry, calligraphy or as a metaphor to address themes such as cultural diversity and the vulnerability of the individual in a globalizing world. [4]

  4. Sound symbolism - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, sound symbolism is the perceptual similarity between speech sounds and concept meanings.It is a form of linguistic iconicity.For example, the English word ding may sound similar to the actual sound of a bell.

  5. Ideogram - Wikipedia

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    Most logograms include some representation of the pronunciation of the corresponding word in the language, often using the rebus principle. Later systems used selected symbols to represent the sounds of the language, such as the adaptation of the logogram for ʾālep 'ox' as the letter aleph representing the initial glottal stop. However, some ...

  6. List of language subsystems - Wikipedia

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    Phonology, the systematic use of sound to encode meaning in any spoken human language (natural language or constructed language); Morphology, the structure of meaningful units of a language, such as words and affixes; Lexicology, the study of words; Syntax, the principles and rules for constructing phrases, clauses, and the like in human languages;

  7. A picture is worth a thousand words - Wikipedia

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    The modern use of the phrase is generally attributed to Fred R. Barnard. Barnard wrote this phrase in the advertising trade journal Printers' Ink, promoting the use of images in advertisements that appeared on the sides of streetcars. [6] The December 8, 1921, issue carries an ad entitled, "One Look is Worth A Thousand Words."

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  9. International Phonetic Alphabet chart - Wikipedia

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    The following is the chart of the International Phonetic Alphabet, a standardized system of phonetic symbols devised and maintained by the International Phonetic Association.