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2. Fourth grade - Wikipedia

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   Fourth grade (also 4th Grade or Grade 4) is the fourth year of formal or compulsory education. ... writing persuasive and argumentative pieces, figurative language ...

3. 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.

4. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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   A figure of speech or rhetorical figure is a word or phrase that intentionally deviates from straightforward language use or literal meaning to produce a rhetorical or intensified effect (emotionally, aesthetically, intellectually, etc.). [1][2] In the distinction between literal and figurative language, figures of speech constitute the latter.

5. English grammar - Wikipedia

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   English grammar is the set of structural rules of the English language.This includes the structure of words, phrases, clauses, sentences, and whole texts.. This article describes a generalized, present-day Standard English – a form of speech and writing used in public discourse, including broadcasting, education, entertainment, government, and news, over a range of registers, from formal to ...

6. Tulips (poem) - Wikipedia

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   Analysis. “Tulips,” written on March 18, 1961, is one of Plath’s most beloved and critically acclaimed poems. It was originally published in The New Yorker in 1962. [2] Ted Hughes stated that the poem was written about a bouquet of tulips Plath received as she recovered from an appendectomy in the hospital.

7. How Doth the Little Crocodile - Wikipedia

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   How Doth the Little Crocodile. " How Doth the Little Crocodile " is a poem by Lewis Carroll that appears in chapter 2 of his 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Alice recites it while attempting to recall "Against Idleness and Mischief" by Isaac Watts. It describes a crafty crocodile that lures fish into its mouth with a welcoming smile.