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  2. Vernon (rapper) - Wikipedia

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    Hansol Vernon Chwe (born February 18, 1998), known mononymously as Vernon (Korean: 버논), is a South Korean [1] and American [2] rapper, singer and songwriter. He is a member of the South Korean boy band Seventeen under Pledis Entertainment. [3] Vernon released his first solo mixtape, Black Eye, on December 27, 2022. [4]

  3. Signifyin' - Wikipedia

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    Rudy Ray Moore, known as "Dolemite", is well known for having used the term in his comedic performances.While signifyin(g) is the term coined by Henry Louis Gates Jr. to represent a black vernacular, the idea stems from the thoughts of Ferdinand De Saussure and the process of signifying—"the association between words and the ideas they indicate."

  4. De verborum significatione - Wikipedia

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    De verborum significatione libri XX [a] ('Twenty Books on the Meaning of Words'), also known as the Lexicon of Festus, [3] is an epitome compiled, edited, and annotated by Sextus Pompeius Festus from the encyclopedic works of Verrius Flaccus.

  5. Eye dialect - Wikipedia

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    While mostly used in dialogue, eye dialect may appear in the narrative depiction of altered spelling made by a character (such as in a letter or diary entry), generally used to more overtly depict characters who are poorly educated or semi-literate. [6] The term eye dialect was first used by George Philip Krapp in 1925. "The convention violated ...

  6. I Spit on Your Graves - Wikipedia

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    Following this copycat crime, when the book went into reprints, it sold more than 500,000 copies, and Vian was tried for translating "objectionable material" (as Vernon Sullivan was still nowhere to be found). Vian ended up paying a fine of 100,000 francs, and in the summer of 1950 the French government banned any further sales of the book.

  7. Vernon Lee - Wikipedia

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    Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of the French-born British writer Violet Paget (14 October 1856 – 13 February 1935). She is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction and her work on aesthetics.

  8. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    Tropes (from Greek trepein, 'to turn') change the general meaning of words. An example of a trope is irony, which is the use of words to convey the opposite of their usual meaning ("For Brutus is an honorable man; / So are they all, all honorable men"). During the Renaissance, scholars meticulously enumerated and classified figures of speech.

  9. Black eye - Wikipedia

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    Eye injury and head trauma may also coincide with a black eye. Some common signs of a more serious injury may include: Double vision; Loss of sight and/or fuzzy vision could occur; Unconsciousness; Inability to move the eye or large swelling around the eye; Blood or clear fluid from the nose or the ears