the use of words such as a pronoun, the verb ‘do', or the words ‘so' and ‘nor' in a sentence instead of repeating a word used earlier. For example, in ‘We love this new technology, and so do all our clients', ‘so' and ‘do' are examples of anaphora.
the relationship between two noun groups that are used next to each other and refer to the same person or thing. For example, in ‘David has a wife, a university teacher, and two adult sons', ‘a wife' and ‘a university teacher' are in apposition. (两个并列名词短语间的)同位关系
linguisticsa word formed by combiningparts of two other words, for example ‘brunch' is a blend of ‘breakfast' and ‘lunch' 缩合词(如brunch是breakfast和lunch的缩合词)
[C]linguisticsa combination of two or more words that is used as a single word. The three main types of compound are noun compounds (for example ‘bus stop'), adjective compounds (for example ‘self-centred'), and verb compounds (for example to ‘windsurf'). 复合词
a group of letters that are added to the end of a word to show that something is smaller than things of that type usually are, for example ‘-let' added to ‘drop' to make ‘droplet' 指小后缀
an explanation for the origin of a word or phrase that is believed by many people to be true but that cannot be proved, for example, the belief that ‘posh' stands for ‘port out, starboard home'
the way in which concepts that are usually expressed in one grammatical form are expressed in another, mainly by using a noun to express a concept normally expressed by a verb
The most obvious feature of the poem is the recurrence of grammatical metaphor.
linguisticsa group of letters that is added to the beginning of a word to change its meaning. For example, the prefix ‘un-' is added to the word ‘tidy' to form ‘untidy'. 前缀(如un-加在tidy 前构成 untidy)
a letter or group of letters added to the end of a word to make another, usually of a different word class. For example the suffix ‘-ness' is added to ‘happy' to make the noun ‘happiness', and ‘ful' is added to ‘hope' to make the adjective ‘hopeful'. 后缀