A summary expresses the author’s thoughts and ideas.
1. . METAPHOR- "Richard DRUMMED his fingers on the arm of the chair waiting for his name to be called."
2. PERSONIFICATION -“Richard drummed his fingers on the ARM OF THE CHAIR waiting for his name to be called."
3. ONOMATOPOEIA-“The WHIRRING of the drills increased his anxiety, but he held his head high with a sort of cowardly courage."
4. ALLITERATION- "The whirring of the drills increased his anxiety, but HE HELD HIS HEAD HIGH with a sort of cowardly courage."
5. OXYMORON- "The whirring of the drills increased his anxiety, but he held his head high with a sort of COWARDLY COURAGE”
6. SIMILE- “RICHARD BRUSHED AND FLOSSED HIS TEETH LIKE A CLOCKWORK to avoid the wrath of the dentist’s tools, so the news that he had four cavities certainly took him by surprise."
7. PERSONIFICATION -"Richard brushed and flossed his teeth like clockwork to avoid THE WRATH of the dentist’s tools, so the news that he had four cavities certainly took him by surprise."
Tailoring a scientific approach was done to increase the impact of the approach to solve the problem in a more efficient way rather than using the approach in it's direct way.
<u>Explanation:</u>
The scientific method attempts to minimize the influence of bias or prejudice in the experimenter. Even the best-intention scientists can't escape bias. That's the job of the scientific method.
The scientific approach provides an objective, standardized approach to conducting experiments and, in doing so, improves their results. Tailoring or changing the approach can help to solve the problem better in a better way than using the approach directly.
In speech-act theory, a perlocutionary act is an action or state of mind brought about by, or as a consequence of, saying something. Also known as perlocutionary effect.