Speech figures are language features that make language more expressive. Used in spoken or written language, these features are responsible for making a message more...
Period (.): long pause that indicates the end of the period and is used in abbreviations. Exclamation mark (!): indicates amazement, admiration, surprise. Question mark (?): indicates doubt,...
The modern Greek alphabet contains 24 letters, 7 vowels and 17 consonants. There is a great similarity between the letters of the Greek alphabet and those of the Portuguese alphabet, both in their shape and sound, when in the...
Intertextuality is a linguistic resource that makes a dialogue between two or more works using a source text as a reference. An author uses an intertextual resource when he brings elements of...
The short story is a literary style that uses narrative as the predominant textual typology. It is characterized by short stories, with few characters, a conflict and a climax. Unlike a novel,...
An opinion piece is an opinion piece. In this type of article, the author presents his point of view and his opinion on a subject, that is, the text reflects the personal impressions of the writer. O...
Figures of speech are linguistic resources used in the Portuguese language to enrich or give more emphasis to texts. They can also be used to give a different meaning to the context...
Synonym is a word that has a similar meaning to another and antonym is a word that has a meaning opposite to another. The difference between synonyms and antonyms is the meaning of words...
Argumentation is a set of statements, premises or assumptions that defend a point of view and that aim to convince the reader about something. Arguing is not necessarily attacking or...
Phonetics is the branch of linguistics that deals with speech sounds and their production, combination, description and representation by written symbols. Phonetics is known as the study of speech sounds...
A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes an object or quality in a non-literal way, and helps explain a general idea about something or someone. 1. Her tears were a flowing river...
Agglutination is a word that means union, mixture, combination or fusion. It can be used to express the union of objects, words, people and so on. The term is also applied in the study of Language...
A neologism consists of a new word or expression, created to designate a new concept or object. The process of creating this word or expression is also called neologism. The creation of...
Reportage is a journalistic textual genre with its own characteristics and whose objective is to transmit information to the recipients. The report is marked by a larger text structure and more...
Alphabets, also called alphabets, are forms of writing made up of a set of graphic signs that represent sound units of a language. The graphic signs that form the alphabets...