I. ABSTRACT This is a fifth grade Language Arts unit on poetry covering the Core Knowledge Sequence Language Arts strand. The unit begins with a review on poetry from fourth grade. Students should have a feel for poetry from the pleasure of reading it. They should have the understanding of the elements of rhyme, rhythm, line, and stanza. This unit is a more in depth study into poetry that cover...

the goal of this study was to investigate the kinds of discourse goals that iranian efl learners perceive as the most probable reasons behind the utterance of figurative language, metaphors and similes, with reference to 4 independent variables of figure type (metaphor or simile), tenor concreteness (concrete or abstract), context (list format or story), and modality (oral, written, and both). ...

People often use similes of pattern “as adjective as noun” to express their feelings on web medias. The adjective in the pattern is generally the salient property and strong impression of the noun entity in the speaker’s mind. By querying the simile templates from search engines, we construct a large database of “noun-adjective” items in English and Chinese, which highlight the same and differe...

There are contradictory ideas concerning the function of metaphors in discourse. Cognitive linguists claim that metaphors are constitutive of reasoning, e.g. Lakoff (1986; 1987). In contrast, anthropologists claim that metaphors are not especially prominent in everyday discourse, e.g. Quinn (1991). This article is an attempt to reconcile the conflicting positions. Instead of the contemporary st...

Metaphorical use of language is often thought to be at odds with compositional, truth-conditional approaches to semantics: after all metaphors are literally false. In this paper we sketch an approach to simple metaphors based on standard type theory. The approach is classical: we do not invent a new logic. The approach models sense extension in that a supertype extends the predicate given in a ...

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