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| The spectators or listeners assembled at a performance, for example, or attracted by a radio or television program. |
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| The spectators or listeners assembled at a performance, for example, or attracted by a radio or television program. |
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| Planned or executed with painstaking attention to numerous parts or details. Intricate and rich in detail. |
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| The origin and historical development of a linguistic form as shown by determining its basic elements, earliest known use, and changes in form and meaning, tracing its transmission from one language to another, identifying its cognates in other languages, and reconstructing its ancestral form where possible. |
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| Change in the form of a word or phrase resulting from a mistaken assumption about its composition or meaning, as in shamefaced for earlier shamfast, "bound by shame," or cutlet from French côtelette, "little rib." |
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| Prose works other than fiction |
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| A short piece of prose fiction, having few characters and aiming at unity of effect. |
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| In verbal irony (sometimes called rhetorical irony), probably the most straightforward kind of irony, the speaker says something different from what he or she really believes. In its crudest form it's called sarcasm, where the speaker intentionally says the opposite of what he or she believes, and expects the audience to recognize the dissembling |
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| An identifying name given to a book, play, film, musical composition, or other work. |
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| A cutting, often ironic remark intended to wound. A form of wit that is marked by the use of sarcastic language and is intended to make its victim the butt of contempt or ridicule |
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| A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, marked by a distinctive style, form, or content |
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| An imaginative creation or a pretense that does not represent actuality but has been invented. |
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