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something that is given great stress or importance: Morality was the emphasis of his speech.
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| the act of exaggerating or overstating |
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| the act of expounding, setting forth, or explaining: the exposition of a point of view. |
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a story not founded on fact: This biography is largely a self-laudatory fable. |
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imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained. |
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figurative language
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language that contains or uses figures of speech, especially metaphors. |
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a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work. |
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an easily recognized character type in fiction who may not be fully delineated but is useful in carrying out some narrative purpose of the author. |
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| to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war. |
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a language designed for use in situations in which natural language is unsuitable, as for example in mathematics, logic, or computer programming. The symbols and formulas of such languages stand in precisely specified syntactic and semantic relations to one another |
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verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern. |
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an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “to wait an eternity.” |
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pictorial images, as in works of art. |
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informal language
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- spontaneous speech in situations that may be described as natural or "real-life," and
- the use of a "low” dialect or language in preference to a “high” one.
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the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: the irony of her reply, “How nice!” when I said I had to work all weekend. |
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