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General nature or nature terms.

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In semiotics, salience refers to the relative importance or prominence of a piece of a sign. The relative salience of a particular sign when considered in the context of others helps an individual to ...

anachrony

Literature; General

A discordance between the order in which events (are said to) occur and the order in which they are recounted : a beginning in media res followed by a return to earlier events constitutes a typical ...

loctutionary act

Literature; General

In linguistics and the philosophy of mind, a locutionary act is the performance of an utterance, and hence of a speech act. The term equally refers to the surface meaning of an utterance because, ...

snowball

Literature; General

A poem in which each line is a single word, and each successive word is one letter longer.

lipogram

Literature; General

Writing that excludes one or more letters. The previous sentence is a lipogram in B, F, H, J, K, Q, V, Y, and Z (it does not contain any of those letters).

palindrome

Literature; General

A palindrome is a word, phrase, number or other sequence of units that can be read the same way in either direction. Composing literature in palindromes is an example of constrained writing. "Was it ...