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  2. List of metonyms - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of common metonyms. [n 1] A metonym is a figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept. For instance, "Westminster", a borough of London in the United Kingdom, could be used as a metonym for the ...

  3. Parody - Wikipedia

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    A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation.Often its subject is an original work or some aspect of it (theme/content, author, style, etc), but a parody can also be about a real-life person (e.g. a politician), event, or movement (e.g. the French Revolution or 1960s counterculture).

  4. Humour - Wikipedia

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    Humour (Commonwealth English) or humor (American English) is the tendency of experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement.The term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which taught that the balance of fluids in the human body, known as humours (Latin: humor, "body fluid"), controlled human health and emotion.

  5. Glossary of comics terminology - Wikipedia

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    A speech/word/dialogue balloon (or bubble) is a speech indicator, containing the characters' dialogue. The indicator from the balloon that points at the speaker is called a pointer [7] or tail. [4] [16] [19] The word balloon bridges the gap between word and image—"the word made image", as expressed by Pierre Fresnault-Druelle. [20]

  6. Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

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    (slang) to make fun of somebody or something; to act in a non-serious manner about something important. Can also mean to transgress beyond what are perceived as acceptable bounds, or to treat with perceived contempt takings * receipts of money at a shop etc. Tannoy loudspeaker (a proprietary brand name), public address system tapping up

  7. 25 for '25, word of the year, concrete tasks and more ... - AOL

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    Make your resolutions fun. Every New Year’s Eve when Lillian Kay was a child, she and her mom would write down their favorite things that happened over the past year and put them in a box. Now ...

  8. Joke - Wikipedia

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    Boris Yeltsin and Bill Clinton enjoying a joke. A joke is a display of humour in which words are used within a specific and well-defined narrative structure to make people laugh and is usually not meant to be interpreted literally. [1]

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