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you don't need to know how I know.
Answer: Elie Wiesel, author of Night, uses figurative language to enhance your experience while reading this book. You'll examine four different types of figurative language in this lesson, and their roles in Wiesel's work: personification, symbolism, simile, and metaphor.
Given sentence:
Most snakes are not poisonous and rarely attack us.
Find: identification of the parts of speech in the given
sentence
Answer:
Most – adjective (since this is related to the noun Snakes that describes
it)
Snakes – noun (since it names a person, place, thing, or idea)
Are – verb (since it is used to describe an action, state, or
occurrence, which in this case is the snake’s actions)
Poisonous – (since this is still related to the noun Snakes that
describes it)
Rarely – adjective ((since this is still related to the noun
Snakes that describes it)
Attack – verb (since it still used to describe an action, state, or
occurrence, which in this case is the snake’s actions)
Us – pronoun (refers either to the participants in the
discourse, which in this case are the people)
If a paragraph has more than one main idea, consider eliminating sentences that relate to the second idea, or split the paragraph into two or more paragraphs, each with only one main idea. Watch our short video on reverse outlining to learn a quick way to test whether your paragraphs are unified. In the following paragraph, the final two sentences branch off into a different topic; so, the revised paragraph eliminates them and concludes with a sentence that reminds the reader of the paragraph’s main idea.
