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  2. Composition (visual arts) - Wikipedia

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    The composition of a picture is different from its subject (what is depicted), whether a moment from a story, a person or a place. Many subjects, for example Saint George and the Dragon, are often portrayed in art, but using a great range of compositions even though the two figures are typically the only ones shown.

  3. Principle of compositionality - Wikipedia

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    On a sentence level, the principle claims that what remains if one removes the lexical parts of a meaningful sentence, are the rules of composition. The sentence "Socrates was a man", for example, becomes "S was a M" once the meaningful lexical items—"Socrates" and "man"—are taken away.

  4. Form and content - Wikipedia

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    Content, on the other hand, refers to a work's subject matter, i.e., its meaning. [2] [3] But the terms form and content can be applied not only to art: every meaningful text has its inherent form, hence form and content appear in very diverse applications of human thought: from fine arts to even mathematics and natural sciences. Even more, the ...

  5. Oral-formulaic theory in Anglo-Saxon poetry - Wikipedia

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    In Homeric verse, for example, a phrase like rhododaktylos eos ("rosy fingered dawn") or oinops pontos ("winedark sea") occupy a certain metrical pattern that fits, in modular fashion, into the six-colon Greek hexameter, and aid the aioidos or bard in extempore composition.

  6. Composition (language) - Wikipedia

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    This composition refers to work produced in digital spaces. The writer or speaker must not only consider all the composing processes of the above-mentioned discourse (like purpose, arrangement, etc.), but the relationship medium plays in the composing and decision process of that work.

  7. Composition - Wikipedia

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    Composition (visual arts), the plan, placement or arrangement of the elements of art in a work; Composition, a 1921 painting by Jozef Peeters; Composition studies, the professional field of writing instruction; Compositions, an album by Anita Baker; Digital compositing, the practice of digitally piecing together a still image or video; Musical ...

  8. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  9. Rule of three (writing) - Wikipedia

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    The rule of three is a writing principle which suggests that a trio of entities such as events or characters is more humorous, satisfying, or effective than other numbers. The audience of this form of text is also thereby more likely to remember the information conveyed because having three entities combines both brevity and rhythm with having ...