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a figure of speech in which the writer deliberately makes something seem smaller or lesser (less good, less important) than it actually is. See euphemism litotes and meiosis.
a part of speech that introduces and indicates the specificity of a noun; the words a...
a pronoun that emphasises the person referred to The suffix -self to the word concerned, e.g....
verse that does not have any set form or rhyme scheme. Often even the rhythm (meter) is...
a graph composed of connected bars, plotted against an x and y-axis; used to represent...
a noun (or noun clause or noun phrase) which comes after the verb to be and completes it, e.g....