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The gradation it is a rhetorical figure that consists of ordering an idea or concept from least to greatest importance. In grading, an attempt is made to show, step by step, how to get from one point to another. This resource is often used a lot in descriptions and is a type of thought figures. For example: They loved each other for days, months, years, and eternities.
Originally, gradation consisted of a literal chaining of words. However, over time this figure resulted in the descending or ascending order of the words according to their importance.
For example: If I don't sleep well at night, I will wake up reluctantly. I will possibly be in a bad mood the rest of the day. At noon, the food will be bad for me. Consequently, I will have a bad day in which I will probably also feel exhausted and will only have the need to return home to rest.
- See also: Increasing words
Grading characteristics
- Their sentences are linked or related to each other.
- Presents a descending or ascending order of importance.
- Use figures of speech like climax and anti-climax to mark the loudest and lightest points.
- It can imply the order from least to greatest (or vice versa) of the length of the words or in relation to their complexity,
Examples of gradation
- If I don't take the medication, I get sickmore. Then they will have to intern and it is likely that die.
- He counted the seconds, minutes, hours, days,weeks, months Y years to se her.
- And the earth became smoke. And the smoke in dust. Then came the shadow and then the nothing.
- If not job, I do not have money. If i don't have money, I will not be able to buy food. If i don't buy food, I get sick what if I get sick, could To die.
- It sounds (the phone), attend, speaks, short.
- The war bring death. The death bring penalties for the living. The living fight for food, although this is scarce as a product of war.
- They know they looked, I know they spoke, I know they kissed, I know fell in love, I know they got married and they loved forever.
- In a House small, of a town small, of a country small, of a continent small, of a world small in the immensity of the galaxy, lived a man ...
- That man I speak, them pointed, them rapture and later fled.
- The storm became drizzle and diminishing in drizzle.
- Atoms, cells, organs, systems, Bodyhuman.
- The rivers they were mighty around that area. More because of the drought many of them were only riversmedium Y Boys and even some already they did not have even flow.
- His decision haunted his days, their months, their years Y decades.
- Hours, minutes, seconds in a instant
- The kilometres that distanced mother from daughter quickly became meters, more later in centimeters hearing their voices on the phone.
- See also: Rhetorical or literary figures
