Category: Rhetoric
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What is a Comparative and a Superlative?
There’s big, then there’s bigger, and biggest. These words have names. Bigger = comparative. It compares one thing to another. Smaller, is also a comparative and so is the word ‘less’. ‘More’ is also a comparative.Examples of the ComparativeTaller, wider, narrower, fatter, heavier, thinner, cleverer, shorter, sweeter, uglier, healthier, unhealthier, wealthier, poorer, lovelier.Not all comparatives can have…
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Technical Terms: How Writers Use Language
+ APOSSUM: Basics for age 8-13 + Get the Complete Revision List of Technical Terms + Get the Genius List ** Comparative and Superlative**
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How to Write About Repetition for Effect: Ploce, Polyptoton, Anaphora, Epistrope, Anadiplosis
Repetition is used to create emphasis, show connections, how ideas transform, develop, build. It can be done at the level of sounds (letters), words or ideas – in a range of patterns.Repetition of Sounds– alliteration: the first letter is repeated– assonance / consonance: sounds are repeated.Repetition of Words1. Anaphora – repetition at the start of units…
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The Genius List: How do Writers Use Language? GCSE and IGCSE Technical Terms and Techniques for English.
Get the genius list of language techniques that writers use – also known as rhetoric. Please use with caution! The list is an advanced one for above-A* grades, A-level and University Level. Get a simpler list here for the GCSE language exam, to answer the question, ‘How Does the Writer Use Language’. Get a list of language techniques…