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General language
figure of speech
Language; General language
Any word or phrase that deviates from the normal literal use of words in order to add beauty, variety, or emphasis to a statement.
flat adverb
Language; General language
An adverb that has been derived from an adjective that does not change its form when it is used as an adverb (e.g. by adding -ly).
free morpheme
Language; General language
A morpheme that can stand on its own as a word. As opposed to a bound morpheme, which is a morpheme that can't stand alone as a word.
font
Language; General language
A stylistically unified set of glyphs representing letters, numerals, ideograms, punctuation marks, and symbols.
frame semantics
Language; General language
Charles Fillmore's theory that words automatically bring to mind bundles of ideas, narratives, emotions, and images that are called frames.
