Variability

Verbal message: information expressed by words

Verse

Versification: theory (formal rules) of making poetry

Vocalic alliteration: Assonance

Vulgar (word, phrase): see Vul­garism

Vulgarism: vulgar word (phrase)

; *V., lexical; *V., stylistic

W

Word combination: sequence of at least two notional words ('head­word' and its modifier/s/)

Word-group: 1. Word combination. 2. Any sequence of two or more words 40

Written speech

Z

Zeugma