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  2. Imagery - Wikipedia

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    Imagery is visual symbolism, or figurative language that evokes a mental image or other kinds of sense impressions, especially in a literary work, but also in other activities such as. Imagery in literature can also be instrumental in conveying tone .

  3. Visual rhetoric - Wikipedia

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    Symbols, or symbolic signs, are recognized only on the basis of a shared, learned code of visual signs (e.g., a Mercedes Benz logo, or any printed word in any written language). These three types of visual signs individually, or in combination, make up the visual design elements of nearly all visual messages.

  4. Stylistic device - Wikipedia

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    In this sentence, Wiesel uses two parallel independent clauses written in the passive voice. The first clause establishes suspense about who rules the ghetto, and then the first few words of the second clause set up the reader with the expectation of an answer, which is metaphorically revealed only in the final word of the sentence.

  5. Rhetorical device - Wikipedia

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    In rhetoric, a rhetorical device, persuasive device, or stylistic device is a technique that an author or speaker uses to convey to the listener or reader a meaning with the goal of persuading them towards considering a topic from a perspective, using language designed to encourage or provoke an emotional display of a given perspective or action.

  6. Visual communication - Wikipedia

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    Aldous Huxley is regarded as one of the most prominent explorers of visual communication and sight-related theories. [12] Becoming near-blind in his teen years as the result of an illness influenced his approach, and his work includes important novels on the dehumanizing aspects of scientific progress, most famously Brave New World and The Art of Seeing.

  7. Mental image - Wikipedia

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    In the philosophy of mind, neuroscience, and cognitive science, a mental image is an experience that, on most occasions, significantly resembles the experience of "perceiving" some object, event, or scene but occurs when the relevant object, event, or scene is not actually present to the senses.

  8. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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    Garden-path sentence, sentences that illustrate that humans process language one word at a time; Gradient well-formedness; Grammaticality; One-syllable article, Chinese phonological ambiguity Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den – Chinese one-syllable poem

  9. Grammatical mood - Wikipedia

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    e IPFV. TAM hina’aro like na DEIX vau SG tō DEF mei’a banana ra DEIX e hina’aro na vau tō mei’a ra IPFV.TAM like DEIX SG DEF banana DEIX 'I would like those bananas (you mentioned).' Mortlockese Mortlockese is an Austronesian language made up of eleven dialects over the eleven atolls that make up the Mortlock Islands in Micronesia. Various TAM markers are used in the language. Mood ...