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Parenthesis is an additional information. The normal progression of a sentence is interrupted by extra information or explanations enclosed in commas, brackets or dashes. The extra information can be ...
Personification is the attribution of human characteristics to animals, inanimate objects or abstractions. Animals, inanimate objects or abstractions are represented as having human characteristics ...
Points of view refers to first or third person narration. In the case of first-person narrator, the narrator tells the story from his / her point of view. It is a limited point of view as the reader ...
A pun, also called paronomasia, involves a word play which suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple meanings of words, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or ...
Repetition consists of words or phrases that are repeated throughout the text to emphasise certain facts or ideas. Example: Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end! »I wonder how many ...
The author / speaker raises a question, but doesn't answer it directly as he/she sees the answer (usually Yes or No) as obvious. Rhetorical questions are used to provoke, emphasise or ...
Simile is a figure of speech comparing two unlike things, often introduced by like or as. Other possibilities are for example: A is (not) like B A is more/less than B A is as … as B A is similar to ...