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Textual Cohesion — Coesione Testuale·Lexical Cohesion: Repetition, Synonymy, and Hyponymy
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Rule reminder

Lexical cohesion creates links between words in a text. Main strategies: (1) REPETITION — same word repeated (for emphasis or clarity); (2) SYNONYMY — different word with similar meaning; (3) HYPONYMY — a specific word that belongs to the same general category (e.g., 'rosa' is a hyponym of 'fiore'); (4) MERONYMY — a part-whole relationship (e.g., 'petalo' is a meronym of 'fiore'). These create semantic networks that hold texts together.

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Completa: 'Il Duomo di Milano è un capolavoro del gotico. La _____ è stata costruita nel corso di secoli.' Which word best creates hyponymic/synonymic cohesion?

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