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The opening sentence or opening line stands at the beginning of a written work. The opening line is part or all of the opening sentence that may start the lead paragraph . For older texts the Latin term incipit ('it begins') is in use for the very first words of the opening sentence.
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As a result, estimates vary from 10,000 to 17,000 word families [15] [18] or 17,000-42,000 dictionary words for young adult native speakers of English. [11] [16] A 2016 study shows that 20-year-old English native speakers recognize on average 42,000 lemmas, ranging from 27,100 for the lowest 5% of the population to 51,700 lemmas for the highest ...
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 ...
Rigveda Book X To Sail Beyond the Sunset: Robert A. Heinlein: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses" To Say Nothing of the Dog: Connie Willis: Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat: To Your Scattered Bodies Go: Philip José Farmer: John Donne, Holy Sonnets VIII The Torment of Others: Val McDermid: T. S. Eliot, The Dry Salvages: Unweaving the Rainbow ...
Note: Titles that begin with an article (A, An, Das, Der, Die (German: the), L' , La, Las, Le, Los or The) should be listed under the next word in the title.Very famous books and books for children may be listed both places to help people find them.
Patricia Aakhus (1952–2012), The Voyage of Mael Duin's Curragh Rachel Aaron, Fortune's Pawn Atia Abawi Edward Abbey (1927–1989), The Monkey Wrench Gang Lynn Abbey (born 1948), Daughter of the Bright Moon Laura Abbot, My Name is Nell Belle Kendrick Abbott (1842–1893), Leah Mordecai Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1872–1958), poet, novelist and short story writer Hailey Abbott, Summer Boys ...
This is a list of novelists from England writing for adults and young adults. Please add only one novel title or comment on fiction per name. Other genres appear in other lists and on subject's page. References appear on the individual pages.