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... FIGURES OF SPEECH AS AIDS TO WRITING When you are trying to write quickly and come to something dif- ficult to explain , try to relate the new concept to something with which the reader is already familiar . A figure of speech is an ...
... FIGURES OF SPEECH AS AIDS TO WRITING When you are trying to write quickly and come to something dif- ficult to explain , try to relate the new concept to something with which the reader is already familiar . A figure of speech is an ...
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... figures of speech are not used as extensively in business and technical writing as they are in fiction and other fields of writing , they can be very useful in explaining a complex process or piece of equipment . In the rough draft , a ...
... figures of speech are not used as extensively in business and technical writing as they are in fiction and other fields of writing , they can be very useful in explaining a complex process or piece of equipment . In the rough draft , a ...
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... Figures of Speech A figure of speech is an imaginative comparison , either stated or implied , between two things that are basically unlike but have at least one thing in common . There are several kinds of figures of speech . A simile ...
... Figures of Speech A figure of speech is an imaginative comparison , either stated or implied , between two things that are basically unlike but have at least one thing in common . There are several kinds of figures of speech . A simile ...
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A Process Not Magic | 3 |
Getting Ready | 13 |
FINDING INFORMATION | 21 |
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