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2. Amelia Bedelia (book) - Wikipedia

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   School Media Activities Monthly published a lesson combining illustrations with instruction on figurative and literal language based on Amelia Bedelia. [10] Examples of idiomatic language from Amelia Bedelia were also used in a study examining metalinguistic ability and whether or not it affects a child's ability to determine meanings of words ...

3. Stylistic device - Wikipedia

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   Figurative language is language using figures of speech. [1] Simile. The easiest stylistic device to identify is a simile, signaled by the use of the words "like" or ...

4. Literal and figurative language - Wikipedia

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   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 is the usage of words exactly according to their direct, straightforward, or conventionally accepted meanings : their denotation .

5. Literature circle - Wikipedia

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   Later that year, some of her fifth grade students expressed an interest in reading them, organized themselves loosely into groups, and started to discuss the novels. Smith was surprised at the degree of their engagement with the books and the complexity of their discussions; they had no outside help or instruction from their teacher (Daniels ...

6. List of English-language metaphors - Wikipedia

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   A list of metaphors in the English language organised alphabetically by type. A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea; e.g., "Her eyes were glistening jewels".

7. English-language idioms - Wikipedia

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   An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).