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a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to signify the whole, or alternatively, the whole signifies a part, e.g. in the expression, Give me a hand, only the hand is referred to, although the help of the whole person is needed. In the expression, South Africa beat New Zealand, the whole of the South Africa is referred to, but the meaning is only the sports team.
a rhythmic foot consisting of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable, e.g. The...
a short section or speech at the end of a story or play, in which the story or fate of its...
a form of poetry that tells a story, e.g. Ulysses (Tennyson).
a paragraph in which the topic sentence is situated at the beginning of the paragraph.
a visual text such as an illustration, graph, chart or photograph.