When people are learning English, the emphasis is on vocabulary and grammar. Native English speakers studying English, study: Word Choice, Imagery, and Sentence Structure.
This is the basics of Higher English, a Scottish qualification.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/bitesize/higher/english/close_reading/index.shtml
I hope that readers of the Antimoon.com English Forum find the above WebSite of interest. It one of the Web Pages that the BBC produce.
I would recommend the BBC to people learning English because the BBC is supported by Television Licence Payers. Consequently the BBC does not expect you to pay for the service that it provides.
Also, with reference to previous comments about correct and incorrect grammar. At one time 'BBC English' was the hallmark by which English was judged. Since then, the English language content provided by the BBC has become much broader. Swear words are commonly heard in BBC dramas. Regional accents are much more common. Different Shows adopt very different approaches, in order to be fresh and original. Television Programmes will aim at specific audiences ie 'young people', or will try to engage the audience, by different techniques. ie 'The Frost Report' was a comedy programme that presented the comedy as if it was a news programme.
Using simile and metaphor
Imagery is a figurative comparison between two things which have no literal connection. By comparing things that are not alike, writers use imagery to create a poetic or descriptive impact. Effective imagery works by allowing readers to compare something they are familiar with to something less familiar. There are two very easily recognised forms of imagery: similes and metaphors.
Similes are simple comparisons and usually contain the word 'like' or 'as'
Examples
' As cool as a cucumber' describes someone who is calm and composed.
'Like a fox in a henhouse' describes dangerous carnage.
Metaphors involve comparison like similes but they do so more subtly than similes. Where a simile tends to describe a comparison by making a simple association like the examples above, a metaphor suggests the comparison without stating it explicitly.
'A trickle of aid to sub-Saharan countries came from the West last year instead of the necessary flood.'
This imagery illustrates that a natural force like water can be used to describe the way that third-world countries are provided with aid. The image relies on the 'trickle' being a slow flow of water inadequate for the purpose of useful aid to the sub-Saharan countries, contrasted with 'flood'; the large volume of support actually needed.
This is the basics of Higher English, a Scottish qualification.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/bitesize/higher/english/close_reading/index.shtml
I hope that readers of the Antimoon.com English Forum find the above WebSite of interest. It one of the Web Pages that the BBC produce.
I would recommend the BBC to people learning English because the BBC is supported by Television Licence Payers. Consequently the BBC does not expect you to pay for the service that it provides.
Also, with reference to previous comments about correct and incorrect grammar. At one time 'BBC English' was the hallmark by which English was judged. Since then, the English language content provided by the BBC has become much broader. Swear words are commonly heard in BBC dramas. Regional accents are much more common. Different Shows adopt very different approaches, in order to be fresh and original. Television Programmes will aim at specific audiences ie 'young people', or will try to engage the audience, by different techniques. ie 'The Frost Report' was a comedy programme that presented the comedy as if it was a news programme.
Using simile and metaphor
Imagery is a figurative comparison between two things which have no literal connection. By comparing things that are not alike, writers use imagery to create a poetic or descriptive impact. Effective imagery works by allowing readers to compare something they are familiar with to something less familiar. There are two very easily recognised forms of imagery: similes and metaphors.
Similes are simple comparisons and usually contain the word 'like' or 'as'
Examples
' As cool as a cucumber' describes someone who is calm and composed.
'Like a fox in a henhouse' describes dangerous carnage.
Metaphors involve comparison like similes but they do so more subtly than similes. Where a simile tends to describe a comparison by making a simple association like the examples above, a metaphor suggests the comparison without stating it explicitly.
'A trickle of aid to sub-Saharan countries came from the West last year instead of the necessary flood.'
This imagery illustrates that a natural force like water can be used to describe the way that third-world countries are provided with aid. The image relies on the 'trickle' being a slow flow of water inadequate for the purpose of useful aid to the sub-Saharan countries, contrasted with 'flood'; the large volume of support actually needed.