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Metaphor can easily be defined as the literary device that presents unreal perception through writing. By this reference, metaphor becomes the expression that describes one thing in terms of another. We have the simple forms of such expressions in our daily conversations, though they are overused. A good example of such simple metaphor is,  "He is a lion" .  It thus foregrounds the image of a lion in the perceptive faculty, even when it is not real. We all know that the lion referred here  is not real; instead it connotes similitude of actions (habitual or not), behaviour or mannerisms which are attributes of lions. Simple metaphorical expressions apart, there are  others as complex metaphor, dead metaphor, diminishing metaphor, stale metaphor and finally, grammatical metaphor. We perceive 'destroying' as a (whole lot of) process, which will involve an agent (the destroyer) and the thing destroyed (the sufferer) as well as the action (the proc

To communicate clearly when you are speaking in English, it’s important to stress the correct syllables in each word. This is called word stress, which means pronouncing one syllable of a multisyllabic word with greater emphasis (stress) than the other syllables in the word.  Word stress therefore is the verbal emphasis placed on one syllable of a word.  This occurs in every English word that has more than one syllable. It’s not always the same syllable but there are a couple of rules to be familiar with when it comes to word stress.  First, word stress is only ever on a vowel of a word; it’s never on a consonant.  Second, there is only one word stress per word.  There are patterns in word stress in English but, as a rule (!), it is dangerous to say there are fixed rules. Exceptions can usually be found. Here are some general tendencies for word stress in English: Word Type of word Tendency Exceptions apple table happy two-syllable nouns and adjectives stress on the fir

Determiners functions particularise the noun referent in different ways: by establishing its reference as definite or indefinite, by means of the articles (a book, the book, an actor, the actor), or relating the entity to the context by means of the demonstratives this, that, these, those (which are deictics or ‘pointing words’), signalling that the referent is near or not near the speaker in space or time (this book, that occasion). The possessives signal the person to whom the referent belongs (my book, the Minister’s reasons) and are sometimes reinforced by own (my own book). Other particularising words are the wh-words (which book? whatever reason) and the distributives (each, every, all, either, neither). Quantifiers are also included in the determiner function. Quantification may be exact (one, seven, a hundred, the first, the next etc. Determiners are words that help to limit the meaning of nouns with respect to specification (precision) and numbers. They usually appear bef