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Reading is one of the most essential and rewarding activities in life, no matter whether you read for pleasure, knowledge, entertainment, academic or career purposes, or simply because you like escaping reality. Learning to read more efficiently will also help you enhance your learning, improve your thinking,...
Writing in narrative form is synonymous to telling a story. Whether it's fiction or a real life event, we use narrative for many different purposes. We may want to convince someone of something we believe to be true. We may want to convince someone of something we know is not true. You can elicit certain emotions,...
In English writing and grammar, the term parallelism refers to a balance kept between different sentences having similar clauses or phrases and same grammatical structure. In English grammar, parallelism is also termed as parallel construction or parallel structure. Applying the concept of parallelism...
Business letters are vital, and they are effective ways to communicate with your colleagues, employees and associates. More importantly, it sets a good precedent when communicating with current or potential clients. No matter why you write a business letter, you need to address it to the concerned person...
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Sonnet is a rhymed poem that is written in 14 lines in iambic pentameter meter. A meter is the word for a unit of rhythm, partly to do with how the syllables are stressed in a line of poetry. In Italian language, the word ‘sonneto’ means a ‘little song’. It possesses musical qualities with a set scheme...
A limerick is a humorous poem of 5 lines, featuring short, funny and rhyming lines. Its bouncy rhythm makes it easier to understand and memorize. It is a funny and well-known form of poetry, often recited to a group for humorous effect. Its exact origins are not known, but it has been assumed to come from...
As you can probably see from our title, in most cases mother-in-law is indeed hyphenated. It is a hyphenated compound noun (i.e. two nouns together for the one entity). This means all compound nouns are hyphenated, right? If only it were so simple. The rules for compound nouns and hyphens use an erratic logic...
An epithet is a rhetorical adjective phrase or figure of speech, generally used for characterizing a thing, person or place. Since ages, authors have used it as a descriptive device of literature with an aim to making someone’s characteristic more prominent than otherwise. Sometimes, it is also referred...
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The question mark is a sign used to place tone on written speech. In Spanish it consists of two elements: the first question mark is flipped over with the opening at the right (¿) and the end question mark is like the English one that opens on the left. Read this oneHOWTO article and learn how to use...
At school children are taught how to form letters using hand lettering practice work sheets. However, every child grows up to have their own and distinctive handwriting style despite using the same template. Less people are now using pen and paper given that many traditional forms of writing have gone...
At school you may have learned that poetry is different from prose because it rhymes. In fact, prose doesn’t tend to follow a metrical structure but a grammatical structure that requires complete sentences and full paragraphs. It may sound difficult to use rhyme in prose when you have to follow certain writing...
When learning Spanish, being able to detect a stressed syllable will enable us to correctly pronounce words and learn how to write without spelling mistakes. This syllable is also related to accentuation because, depending on whether it is acute, paroxytone or proparoxytone - that is, depending on what part...
We all use different figures of speech in our day to day lives, often without knowing the proper term for them. While this is fine if we get the essential meaning, when reading poetry and prose, understanding figurative language can help break down complex themes and intimations. These literary devices...
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Figures of speech are formed by a set of words that come together causing alterations in the traditional syntax so to emphasise, exalt feelings or provoke an idea. There are a wide range of figures of speech but here we want to show the essential ones used in English poerty. In OneHowTo.com we underline...
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Although from a young age we are faced with the task of writing things up on a daily basis when we reach adult life only a few people manage to do this effectively, in a manner appealing to the reader and free of errors. If you want to improve your writing skills in the English language, at oneHOWTO...
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Analyzing a text means interpreting the information that is written in that text, breaking it down to gather all the information and learn the meaning behind what it's written in the text. When you're analyzing a text you're examining how the author presents his or her arguments within the text and whether...
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A description is no more than explaining in words, in a detailed and organised way, what we have seen or experienced, whether events, landscapes, artwork and even people. The aim is that the person who hears or reads our explanation will imagine what we are describing exactly as it was.
When describing people,...
Conducting a textual analysis or literary commentary is not a simple matter. This type of essay should be an interpretation of a literary passage, and not simply a retelling of it. It requires prior knowledge and application of a series of specific steps with regard to the context, author, structure and form....
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Whether your research project has given important results and points of view or not, you can write a strong technically document. The key to writing high quality work is to be meticulous and concise and include all major sections, including methodology. The methodology is the section of the document...
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A report is a text created to communicate and inform about a situation from several perspectives, a form can be asked for in any field, may you be in school, college, jobs, etc. but to write them there are several steps we must learn and follow.
With OneHowTo you can learn how to write a report in...
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