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a style of writing and speaking that is journalistic, e.g. According to eye-witness accounts received today from towns in the Northern Cape and Orange Free State, widespread flooding is occurring along the banks of the Orange River. Police spokesperson, Captain Renette Taljaard, told News Chronicle, 'At least three towns have been evacuated and we are monitoring reports from other towns very carefully.'
a syllable that ends in a consonant, e.g. cap, sit, men.
events that take place in a story, either in literature or film. Action describes what...
a fourteen line poem, with a set rhyme scheme. See Petrarchan sonnet and Shakespearean sonnet...
a work of literature in which the story and events are based on fact, not on fiction, e.g. a...
the present participle of a verb, used as a noun, e.g. I like running. Swimming is great.