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a figure of speech in which a group of words express a figurative meaning, not obvious from the individual meaning of each word. The phrase has come to have meaning over time, e.g. When she won the lottery, she was over the moon. Or the phrase makes sense in the context of the specific language of a particular geographical area, e.g. Because she spoke in the idiom of South Yorkshire, most visitors from South Africa could not understand a word she said!
a word formed from a foreign word e.g. preface is a paronym of the Latin word prefatio.
a figure of speech in which a writer makes a reference to person or text she or he assumes the...
to emphasise something that is close to the viewer by focussing on the subject. The term is also...
a word, phrase, or name, usually set in boldface, that serves as the heading for an entry in a...
(also called colloquial language) informal language that is appropriate for everyday, casual...