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2. Stylistic device - Wikipedia

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   Figurative language is language using figures of speech. [1] Simile. The easiest stylistic device to identify is a simile, signaled by the use of the words "like" or ...

3. List of narrative techniques - Wikipedia

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   Evoking imagination by means of using figurative language. Her tears were a river flowing down her cheeks. Thematic patterning: Distributing recurrent thematic concepts and moralistic motifs among various incidents and frames of a story. In a skillfully crafted tale, thematic patterning may emphasize the unifying argument or salient idea that ...

4. English-language idioms - Wikipedia

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   An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).

5. Literal and figurative language - Wikipedia

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   Literal and figurative language is a distinction that exists in all natural languages; it is studied within certain areas of language analysis, in particular stylistics, rhetoric, and semantics. Literal language is the usage of words exactly according to their direct, straightforward, or conventionally accepted meanings : their denotation .

6. Reading comprehension - Wikipedia

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   Comprehension specifically is a "creative, multifaceted process" that is dependent upon four language skills: phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. [6] Reading comprehension is a part of literacy. Some of the fundamental skills required in efficient reading comprehension are the ability to: [7] [8] [9] know the meaning of words,

7. Essay - Wikipedia

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   The focus of a description is the scene. Description uses tools such as denotative language, connotative language, figurative language, metaphor, and simile to arrive at a dominant impression. [15] One university essay guide states that "descriptive writing says what happened or what another author has discussed; it provides an account of the ...