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2. 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 ...

3. Fun - Wikipedia

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   Fun's evanescence can be seen when an activity regarded as fun becomes goal-oriented. Many physical activities and individual sports are regarded as fun until the participant seeks to win a competition, at which point, much of the fun may disappear as the individual's focus tightens. Surfing is an example.

4. English studies - Wikipedia

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   English language arts, which is the study of grammar, usage, and style. English sociolinguistics, including discourse analysis of written and spoken texts in the English language, the history of the English language, English language learning and teaching, and the study of World of English. English linguistics (syntax, morphology, phonetics ...

5. Hobby - Wikipedia

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   Writing and editing articles for Wikipedia is a hobby for some people.. In the 16th century, the term "hobby" had the meaning of "small horse and pony". The term "hobby horse" was documented in a 1557 payment confirmation for a "Hobbyhorse" from Reading, England. [2]

6. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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   Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

7. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog - Wikipedia

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   "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is an English-language pangram – a sentence that contains all the letters of the alphabet. The phrase is commonly used for touch-typing practice, testing typewriters and computer keyboards , displaying examples of fonts , and other applications involving text where the use of all letters in the ...

8. Ela - Wikipedia

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   Ela River, in New Hampshire, United States; Ela Township, Lake County, Illinois, United States; Parc Ela, a Swiss nature park Piz Ela, a mountain therein; ELA-1 (Ensemble de Lancement Ariane), a rocket launch pad in French Guiana; Experimental Lakes Area, in northwestern Ontario, Canada; Nay Pyi Taw International Airport, formerly Ela Airport ...

9. Shtick - Wikipedia

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   A shtick is a comic theme or gimmick.The word entered the English language from the Yiddish shtik (שטיק), related to German Stück, Polish sztuka, Cyrillic штука (all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *stukkiją), all meaning "piece", "thing" or "theatre play"; Theaterstück is the German word for play (and is a synonym of Schauspiel, literally "viewing play" in contrast to Singspiel).