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× TUTORIAL - Anaphora (Rhetorical Devices) Using Advanced Rhetorical Devices to Surprise and Delight Anaphora For at least the last century, there has... Research TutorialWriting Help - Mar 25, 2013 / — -	— 2346
× TUTORIAL - Rhetorical Question (Rhetorical Devices) Using Advanced Rhetorical Devices to Surprise and Delight Rhetorical Question Unlike many of the terms which will... Research TutorialWriting Help - Mar 25, 2013 / — -	— 4358
× TUTORIAL - Zoomorphism (Rhetorical Devices) Using Advanced Rhetorical Devices to Surprise and Delight Zoomorphism Many students are surprised to hear that for... Research TutorialWriting Help - Mar 25, 2013 / — -	— 7636
× TUTORIAL - Introduction (Rhetorical Devices) Using Advanced Rhetorical Devices to Surprise and Delight Introduction In the previous two series we covered many... Research TutorialWriting Help - Mar 25, 2013 / — -	— 2014
× TUTORIAL - The Lowest of the Low (Word Usage) The Lowest of the Low The majority of the items explored in this series, if not all of... Research TutorialWriting Help - Mar 06, 2013 / — -	— 1864
× TUTORIAL - Bad Negation (Word Usage) Bad Negation Making a statement negative in English is a relatively straightforward affair, especially compared to other languages,... Research TutorialWriting Help - Mar 06, 2013 / — -	— 1700
× TUTORIAL - Unnecessary Redundancy (Word Usage) Unnecessary Redundancy For those of you who already know this one, the title of this article, "unnecessary redundancy"... Research TutorialWriting Help - Mar 06, 2013 / — -	— 4332
× TUTORIAL - Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers (Word Usage) Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers Read the following sentence, and judge whether it is correct or incorrect: "Walking carefully... Research TutorialWriting Help - Mar 06, 2013 / — -	— 1667
× TUTORIAL - He / She, They (Word Usage) He / She, They As we have seen throughout this series, errors in usage range on a wide... Research TutorialWriting Help - Mar 05, 2013 / — -	— 2571
× TUTORIAL - The Semicolon (Word Usage) The Semicolon Although other punctuation is often overused, frequently misplaced, and left out when it is really needed,... Research TutorialWriting Help - Mar 05, 2013 / — -	— 1824
× TUTORIAL - The Comma (Word Usage) The Comma I will admit that I was not surprised when I learned that, in many other languages,... Research TutorialWriting Help - Mar 04, 2013 / — -	— 1741
× TUTORIAL - The Colon (Word Usage) The Colon Ah, the colon. A wonderful organ that is vitally important to have checked, especially if you... Research TutorialWriting Help - Mar 04, 2013 / — -	— 1796
× TUTORIAL - Number, Amount (Word Usage) Number, Amount Most of the errors mentioned so far in this series are either so subtle that we... Research TutorialWriting Help - Mar 04, 2013 / — -	— 2092
× TUTORIAL - Singular and Plural Verb Agreement (Word Usage) Singular and Plural Verb Agreement Something that new speakers of English have an especially hard time with is... Research TutorialWriting Help - Mar 04, 2013 / — -	— 2387
× TUTORIAL - Strong Verbs (Word Usage) Strong Verbs As we have discussed many times in this series already, native English speakers in general have... Research TutorialWriting Help - Mar 04, 2013 / — -	— 2200
× TUTORIAL - Could of, Would of, and the rest (Word Usage) Could of, Would of, ... There are some infractions against standard English usage which hardly count as infractions... Research TutorialWriting Help - Mar 02, 2013 / — -	— 1950
× TUTORIAL - Who, Whom (Word Usage) Who, Whom Over time, distinctions which were once strictly kept in a given language cease to be important,... Research TutorialWriting Help - Mar 02, 2013 / — -	— 2285
× TUTORIAL - Objective Case Pronouns (Word Usage) Objective Case Pronouns Although the title of this article sounds intimidating to those without any background in grammar,... Research TutorialWriting Help - Mar 02, 2013 / — -	— 1992
× TUTORIAL - Emphasis Quotes? (Word Usage) Emphasis Quotes Although this series, as you can see displayed clearly in its title, is focused on not... Research TutorialWriting Help - Mar 02, 2013 / — -	— 1859
× TUTORIAL - "Literally" (Word Usage) "Literally" Language, the constantly evolving organism that it is, is transformed by many forces, one of the most... Research TutorialWriting Help - Feb 28, 2013 / — -	— 1925
× TUTORIAL - Their, They're, There (Word Usage) Their, They're, There Another group of words commonly confused because they are homonyms is the trio "their," "they're,"... Research TutorialWriting Help - Feb 28, 2013 / — -	— 2462
× TUTORIAL - Your, You're (Word Usage) Your, You're Very near the top of the list of common misuses is the pair "your" and "you're,"... Research TutorialWriting Help - Feb 28, 2013 / — -	— 2180
× TUTORIAL - Two, Too, To (Word Usage) Two, Too, To Although successive teachers in every year of our schooling try their best to untangle this... Research TutorialWriting Help - Feb 26, 2013 / — -	— 2359
× TUTORIAL - Introduction to Common Misusages Common Language Misusages ]It has often been said that native speakers of a language are at a disadvantage... Research TutorialWriting Help - Feb 26, 2013 / — -	— 1970
× TUTORIAL - Metonymy and Synecdoche (Figurative Language) Metonymy and Synecdoche This final article in the series on essential figurative language deals with two terms that... Research TutorialWriting Help - Feb 25, 2013 / — -	— 2760
× TUTORIAL - Malapropism (Figurative Language) Malapropism Of all the figurative terms that have been introduced in this series, malapropism is arguably the most... Research TutorialWriting Help - Feb 25, 2013 / — -	— 4518
× TUTORIAL - Hyperbole and Litotes (Figurative Language) Hyperbole and Litotes Hyperbole and Litotes, like many of the terms in this series, are relatively uncommon names... Research TutorialWriting Help - Feb 24, 2013 / — -	— 53840
× TUTORIAL - Allegory (Figurative Language) Allegory Any time several lower-level concepts are combined to produce a more complex one, confusion will arise; this... Research TutorialWriting Help - Feb 24, 2013 / — -	— 8370
× TUTORIAL - Allusion (Figurative Language) Allusion Having so recently discussed puns in this series, it is appropriate that we turn next to a... Research TutorialWriting Help - Feb 24, 2013 / — -	— 7580
× TUTORIAL - Pun (Figurative Language) Pun Puns can be found everywhere in modern society, and it is difficult to imagine advertising, sitcoms, and... Research TutorialWriting Help - Feb 24, 2013 / — -	— 6734
× TUTORIAL - Symbolism and Symbols (Figurative Language) Symbolism and Symbols The importance and wonder of symbolism today has nowhere been better conveyed than in the... Research TutorialWriting Help - Feb 24, 2013 / — -	— 5727
× TUTORIAL - Personification & Apostrophe (Figurative Language) Personification & Apostrophe As with many of the other figures discussed in this series, personification and apostrophe are... Research TutorialWriting Help - Feb 24, 2013 / — -	— 11626
× TUTORIAL - Alliteration (Figurative Language) Alliteration As is the case for most of the aspects of figurative language discussed thus far in the... Research TutorialWriting Help - Feb 24, 2013 / — -	— 11834
× TUTORIAL - Consonance and Assonance (Figurative Language) Consonance and Assonance The idea of "sound effects" in language, especially in literature, is one that has been... Research TutorialWriting Help - Feb 23, 2013 / — -	— 5653
× TUTORIAL - Euphemism (Figurative Language) Euphemism Since so much of our rhetorical terminology originated with the Greeks, it is not surprising that so... Research TutorialWriting Help - Feb 23, 2013 / — -	— 4913
× TUTORIAL - Synesthesia (Figurative Language) Synesthesia One of the more popular recent additions to the family of figurative language is synesthesia, an interesting... Research TutorialWriting Help - Feb 23, 2013 / — -	— 3382
× TUTORIAL - Pathetic Fallacy (Figurative Language) Pathetic Fallacy In the realm of logic, a fallacy is a common error in reasoning that can seem... Research TutorialWriting Help - Feb 22, 2013 / — -	— 3460
× TUTORIAL - Oxymoron and Paradox (Figurative Language) Oxymoron and Paradox Whereas many aspects of figurative language, like simile and metaphor, are rooted in similarity, many... Research TutorialWriting Help - Feb 22, 2013 / — -	— 6659
× TUTORIAL - Onomatopoeia (Figurative Language) Onomatopoeia The term onomatopoeia is such a daunting word that students almost always immediately assume that it must... Research TutorialWriting Help - Feb 22, 2013 / — -	— 4781
× TUTORIAL - Irony (Figurative Language) Irony Although the term irony is very prevalent in popular culture today, it is nonetheless one of the... Research TutorialWriting Help - Feb 22, 2013 / — -	— 4024
× TUTORIAL - The Difficulties in Researching a Strong Academic Paper Strong Academic Paper Research Every student at the high school or college level has practice writing academic papers,... Research TutorialAjay12 - Jun 06, 2012 / — -	— 1767

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