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Silak12 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
Definition?
Hi! everyone. Could you make me understand the first line of this definition of "One-act Play",It is from my book, but I could not understand what the colored line means?
Here-:The one-act play is to full-length play what the short story is to the novel.It is based on an incident,situation,background or qualities of characters.It possesses conflict and its resolution and progress in ideas and events are related to the theme.The dialogue is generally lively and the language is closest to everyday converstion.
Please tell me the meaning of the colored line,I could not understand its grammatical construction as well as its meaning.
Thanks!
Here-:The one-act play is to full-length play what the short story is to the novel.It is based on an incident,situation,background or qualities of characters.It possesses conflict and its resolution and progress in ideas and events are related to the theme.The dialogue is generally lively and the language is closest to everyday converstion.
Please tell me the meaning of the colored line,I could not understand its grammatical construction as well as its meaning.
Thanks!
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This is a standard style of explanation by comparison. It's a bit like a simile, but instead of saying that one thing is like another thing, it uses the relationship between two things to explain the relationship between two other things. For example, the following pairs of words all have similar relationships: person, child horse, foal cat, kitten dog, puppy ...
- This is a standard style of explanation by comparison.
- It's a bit like a simile, but instead of saying that one thing is like another thing, it uses the relationship between two things to explain the relationship between two other things.
- For example, the following pairs of words all have similar relationships: person, child horse, foal cat, kitten dog, puppy ...
- and so on.
- The sentence structure, using cat/kitten and dog/puppy as examples, is: A kitten is to a cat what a puppy is to a dog.
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This is a standard style of explanation by comparison. It's a bit like a simile, but instead of saying that one thing is like another thing, it uses the relationship between two things to explain the relationship between two other things.
For example, the following pairs of words all have similar relationships:
person, child
horse, foal
cat, kitten
dog, puppy
For example, the following pairs of words all have similar relationships:
person, child
horse, foal
cat, kitten
dog, puppy
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