A writing aid
—are beliefs that can be supported but not proved to be true whereas fact is a statement that can be proved true.
Five Ws: this is a pre-writing technique in which writers gather details about a topic by generating answers to the following questions: Who? What? Where? When? And Why? Connotation: the emotional associations that a word calls to mind.
Tone: this is a writer’s attitude toward the readers and toward the subject. Remember topic sentence: a sentence that states the main idea of a paragraph. Topical paragraph: is a paragraph that develops, explains, and supports the topic sentence related to an essay’s theses statement. Subordinate clause: a group of words containing both a subject and a verb that cannot stand by itself as a complete sentence.
Statistics: facts presented in numerical form, such as ratios, percentages, or summaries. Theme: the central idea, concern, or purpose in a piece of narrative writing, poetry or drama. Symbol: something is itself and also stands for something else.
Allegory: a literary work with two or more levels of meaning — a literal level and one or more symbolic levels. Alliteration: the repetition of initial consonants sounds in accented syllables. Allusion: an indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art.
Functional paragraph: a paragraph that performs a specific role in composition such as to arouse or sustain interest, to indicate dialogue and to make a transition. Image is a word or phrase that appeals to o — sight, hearing, touch, one or more of the senses — sight, hearing, touch, taste, or smell. Imagery: the descriptive language used to recreate sensory experiences, set a tone, suggest emotions and guide readers’ reactions.
As stated before the terms listed here remain useless as long as they are not used correctly in writing. Their correct usage in sentences demonstrate full understanding.
A word of advice. In order to do well in the examinations is not a one-day thing. I would like to call it a process. You need to work hard all the time even if you are not in an examination class. Stay focussed. Widen your area of study.
There are many competitions which go along with learning such as public speaking or essay writing competitions. Many learners are afraid to take part in them yet they are open to all of them. Those who venture into them have benefited a lot. They might not have won but being part of the sessions has enlightened them.
So learners, get involved and take part in those activities, you will never regret having done so. Many learners have won prizes through those interactions. Fear of failure appears to be a hindrance to many learners whose potential remains untapped.
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