A 12-year-old boy has set a world record after discovering the largest European wasp nest on a property Down Under. Jordan Waddingham scoured through bushland at Karoola, north east of Launceston in Tasmania to unravel the plague of wasps after his mother Stephanie offered him $20 to locate the nest.
bildungsroman (plural bildungsromans or bildungsromane) A novel tracing the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the main character, usually from childhood to maturity.
zeugma. n. 1. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a figure of speech in which a word is used to modify or govern two or more words although appropriate to only one of them or making a different sense with each, as in the sentence Mr. Pickwick took his hat and his leave (Charles Dickens).ickwick took his hat and his leave' is an example of zeugma. figure of speech, trope, image, figure-language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense. syllepsis-use of a word to govern two or more words though agreeing in number or case etc. with only one. Translations.