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  2. Childhood in literature - Wikipedia

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    Childhood in literature is a theme within writing concerned with depictions of adolescence. Childhood writing is often told from either the perspective of the child or that of an adult reflecting on their childhood. [1] Novels either based on or depicting childhood present social commentaries rooted in the views and experiences of an individual ...

  3. The Gruffalo - Wikipedia

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    The use of the Gr sound at the start of the name evokes negativity, harshness and discomfort, as it is a common consonant cluster in words with that connotation (for example: growl, groan, grumble). The first syllable in the name—gruff—is shared with the other children's literary characters of the Three Billy Goats Gruff. [24]

  4. Children's literature - Wikipedia

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    The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883) is a canonical piece of children's literature and one of the best-selling books ever published. [ 1] Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended ...

  5. Connotation - Wikipedia

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    Connotation. A connotation is a commonly understood cultural or emotional association that any given word or phrase carries, in addition to its explicit or literal meaning, which is its denotation . A connotation is frequently described as either positive or negative, with regard to its pleasing or displeasing emotional connection. [ 1]

  6. Literal and figurative language - Wikipedia

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    Linguistics. Literal and figurative language is a distinction that exists in all natural languages; it is studied within certain areas of language analysis, in particular stylistics, rhetoric, and semantics. Literal language uses words exactly according to their direct, straightforward, or conventionally accepted meanings: their denotation.

  7. Gracie Graves and the Kids from Room 402 - Wikipedia

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    Book Links critics Stanley and Joy Steiner suggested that students could be inspired by Gracie Graves and the Kids from Room 402 to "write about their own experiences in school and with books". [11] In The Horn Book Guide, Patricia Riley praised the poems for being comical, but found the children uninteresting. [12]

  8. Treatise - Wikipedia

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    It is a prime example of how to write a text in pure mathematics, featuring simple and logical axioms, precise definitions, clearly stated theorems, and logical deductive proofs. The Elements consists of thirteen books dealing with geometry (including the geometry of three-dimensional objects such as polyhedra), number theory, and the theory of ...

  9. Signified and signifier - Wikipedia

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    e. In semiotics, signified and signifier ( French: signifié and signifiant) are the two main components of a sign, where signified is what the sign represents or refers to, known as the "plane of content", and signifier which is the "plane of expression" or the observable aspects of the sign itself. The idea was first proposed in the work of ...