comparative
The degree of comparison is superlative. Descriptive words ending with -est are superlative forms.
The degree of comparison is superlative. Descriptive words ending with -est are superlative forms.
The degree of comparison for "sideways" is the positive degree, as it simply describes the manner in which some people sleep. It is not being compared to anything else in this sentence.
Violent, menacing, brutal, cutthroat, dangerous, terrible, savage, or vicious. Those words mean fierce.
A comparison using like or as is a simile. A comparison without them is a metaphor.
Nouns do not have degrees; nouns are singular or plural, common or proper, concrete or abstract, etc.Adjectives are the words that have degrees of comparison; the degrees are:positivecomparativesuperlativeExamples: cold, colder, coldesthappy, happier, happiestgood, better, bestmodern, more modern, most modernspecial, more special, most special
Simile
A simile is a comparison between two things using the words "like" and "as." A comparison without these words is known as a metaphor.
Synecdoche
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like or as
Primary, original, earliest, foremost are all synonyms of the word first.