#line.textual_matter text consisting of a row of words written across a page or column or computer screen; "the letter consisted of three short lines"
supertype: #textual_matter__textualmatter__text the words of something written; "there were more than a thousand words of text"; "they handed out the printed text of the mayor's speech"; "he wants to reconstruct the original text"
subtype: #opening_line__openingline the first line of a piece of writing (as a newspaper story)
subtype: #heading__head a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about; "the heading seemed to have little to do with the text"
subtype: #crossheading__crosshead a heading of a subsection printed within the body of the text
subtype: #newspaper_headline__newspaperheadline__headline the heading or caption of a newspaper article
subtype: #dropline__drop_line__stepped_line__steppedline__staggerhead__staggeredhead__stephead a headline with the top line flush left and succeeding lines indented to the right
subtype: #screamer.newspaper_headline a sensational newspaper headline
subtype: #streamer.newspaper_headline__banner a newspaper headline that runs across the full page
subtype: #lemma.heading the head of an annotation or gloss
subtype: #rubric.heading a title or heading that is printed in red or in a special type
subtype: #running_head__runninghead__running_headline__runningheadline a heading printed at the top of every page (or every other page) of a book
subtype: #running_title__runningtitle the title (or a shortened title) of a book used as a running head
subtype: #subheading__subhead a heading of a subdivision of a text
subtype: #title.subheading a general or descriptive heading for a section of a written work; "the novel had chapter titles"
subtype: #credit.title an entry on a list of persons who contributed to a film or written work
subtype: #caption__legend brief description accompanying an illustration
subtype: #subhead__subtitle secondary or explanatory title
subtype: #statute_title__statutetitle__title__rubric a heading that names a statute or legislative bill; may give a brief summary of the matters it deals with; "Title 8 provided federal help for schools"
subtype: #line_of_poetry__line_of_verse a single line of words in a poem
subtype: #Alexandrine a line of verse that has six iambic feet
subtype: #by-line__credit_line a line giving the name of the writer of a story or article
subtype: #dateline a line at the beginning of a news article giving the date and place of origin of the news dispatch
subtype: #verse_line__verseline__verse a line of metrical text
subtype: #iambic a verse line consisting of iambs
subtype: #Adonic_line__Adonic a verse line with a dactyl followed by a spondee or trochee; used in laments by Adonis
subtype: #tetrameter a verse line having four metrical feet
subtype: #pentameter a verse line having five metrical feet
subtype: #hexameter a verse line having six metrical feet
subtype: #octameter a verse line having eight metrical feet
subtype: #octosyllable a verse line having eight syllables or a poem of octosyllabic lines
subtype: #decasyllable a verse line having ten syllables
subtype: #punch_line__punchline__laugh_line__laughline__gag_line__gagline__tagline the point of a joke or humorous story
subtype: #actor's_line__actor'sline__speech__words__word words making up the dialogue of a play; "the actor forgot his lines"
subtype: #aside a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
subtype: #cue an actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech
subtype: #prompt__prompting a cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken); "the audience could hear his prompting"
subtype: #monologue a (usually long) dramatic speech by a single actor
subtype: #soliloquy a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections
subtype: #throwaway words spoken in a casual way with conscious under-emphasis
subtype: #spiel__patter__line_of_gab plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson)
subtype: #sound_bite__soundbite a very short speech; usually on radio or television
subtype: #bottom_line.line__bottomline the last line in an audit; the line that shows profit or loss
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