Marching is the technique of starting on page one and then writing your first draft from beginning to end, all in chronological order. Like someone marching along, you keep putting one foot in front of the other, forcing yourself on until the job is done.
Synecdoche is a figure of speech where a part of something is used to represent the whole. For example, a person might say, ‘Check out my new wheels,’ with the car’s wheels being used as a figure of speech that represents the whole vehicle.
In this article, we’ll be looking at oxymorons, tautologies, and malapropisms. We’ll even end with a quiz to help hammer home what you’ve learned.
Verbal irony is the use of words to convey something other than their literal meaning. If you accidentally dropped the ice cream cone you just bought and said, “Oh, great!”, you’d be using verbal irony.
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