This is a mashup of rhetorical devices and non-literal use of words categorized by how the words are patterned: substituting words, repeating words, adding words, and removing words.
Figurative Language and Word Play
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This is a mashup of rhetorical devices and non-literal use of words categorized by how the words are patterned: substituting words, repeating words, adding words, and removing words.
subject (noun)appositivepredicateBill, the head chef,cooked the meal. [a] appositive (nonrestrictive noun phrase) repeating a noun, directly after a subject [a. verb and direct object] appositive subject (noun)predicateA jolly old man,Santadelivered the presents. [a]...
1. SV Subject + Verb Subject + Verb (intransitive) (intransitive verbs) Basic Structures Subject + Verb (intransitive) SubjectVerb (intransitive)Sheran. She ran. SubjectVerb PhraseThe bookshave been sold. The books have been sold. SVA Basic Structures with Adverbials...
Nut-Graf Structure Description: Start with an anecdote, follow with the story in a nutshell (nut graf), then add details that tie directly back to nut, end with a tie back to anecdote. Also called: feature style Likely Origin: Wall Street Journal, Barney Kilgore, 1941...