The word Analogy has come from the Greek word analogia which means proportion,according to Greek ana means according and logos means ratio. This figure of…
The word metaphor comes from the Greek word ‘metaphora’ which means carrying a word or term over or beyond. Greek meta means over or beyond…
Simile is a figure of speech in which an explicit competition between two different things or ideas are made. Examples of similes The soul was…
A mode, quite simply, is a means of communicating. According to the New London Group, there are five modes of communication: visual, linguistic, spatial, aural,…
The method of teaching English adopted at present in school curriculum is functional communicative approach FAC is opposite to Structural Approach Communicative language Teaching replaces Structural teachng Direct method is also…
Source of the Word Rhetoric The term Rhetoric has came from Greek word ‘Rhetorike‘ meaning ‘Technical art or a rhetor“( rhetor means orator or public spreker). Some…
To Read Language Features of language Main components of language Basic concepts: Idiolect, Dialect, language Descriptive and Prescriptive Origin and development of language Language acquisition…
One of the noted difficulties of English spelling is a high number of silent letters. Edward Carney distinguishes different kinds of “silent” letters, which present…
Change the following degrees of Adjective Sital is my elder sister. (Superlative) Can you point me towards the nearest phone booth? (Positive) This is the…
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