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skills used to work out what a word means, e.g. by guessing what a word means based on the rest of the sentence (contextual clues) or recognising the root of a word and understanding its meaning from that.
(also called an Elizabethan sonnet) a sonnet consisting of three quatrains (four-line stanzas)...
a style of writing and speaking that is conversational (everyday, relaxed, informal) and often...
(also called cutaway) a quick jump between shots, often used in chase scenes (e.g. car chases)...
an understatement (figure of speech) that means the opposite of what it says, e.g. Not bad means...
the choice and use of words that fit a context best; the particular words a writer or speaker...