Slang

Entertainment / Literature / Slang: Informal diction or the use of vocabulary considered inconsistent with the preferred formal wording common among the educated or elite in a culture. For instance, formal wording might require a message such as this one: Greetings. How are my people doing? The slang version might be as follows: Yo. Whassup with my peeps?
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Metadrama

Entertainment / Literature / Metadrama: Drama in which the subject of the play is dramatic art itself, especially when such material breaks up the illusion of watching reality. When Macbeth cries out, 'Life's but a walking shadow, a poor pl MORE

Diction

Entertainment / Literature / Diction: The choice of a particular word as opposed to others. A writer could call a rock formation by many words--a stone, a boulder, an outcropping, a pile of rocks, a cairn, a mound, or even an 'anomalous g MORE

Globe

Entertainment / Literature / Globe: One of the theatres in London where Shakespeare performed. Shakespeare's acting company built it on the Bankside south of the Thames--an area often called 'Southwerke'--which was notorious for its bro MORE