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	Inference: Figurative Language
		Inference: Association and Reference], the final comment is a use of figurative language.
		Martin Luther King was a master of figurative language.
		Figurative language ups the reader's interest and often conveys meaning hard to convey in words.
	www.criticalreading.com /inference_figurative_language.htm (953 words)

	NAACL-HLT 2007
		Figurative language, such as metaphor, metonymy, idioms, among others, is in abundance in natural discourse.
		The recognition of figurative language use and the computation of figurative language meaning constitute one of the hardest problems for a variety of natural language processing tasks, such as machine translation, text summarization, and question answering.
		Tree-structured mappings between languages are widely recognized as desirable for statistical machine translation, and there is mounting interest in approaches built on a family of formalisms that includes synchronous/transduction grammars and their tree transducer equivalents.
	www.cs.rochester.edu /meetings/hlt-naacl07/workshops.shtml (600 words)

	Figurative Language Essays\| Figurative Language Dissertations
		Usages in figurative language are called figures of speech.
		Cognitive linguistics, in particular, may ultimately declare all distinction between literal and figurative language irrelevant.
		All material supplied about figurative language must be used for research purposes only and all languages essays remain our copyright.
	www.languages.degree-essays.com /figurative-language-essays.html (852 words)

	Building Competency with Figurative Language One Idiom at a Time, IRCA Articles, Access Autism
		The English language is rich because of the breath of vocabulary available to speakers and because of abundant usage of figurative language.
		The solution is not to eliminate the use of figurative language which would be a formidable task and would further compromise student preparation for the adult world, but to look for multiple opportunities for increasing students' idiomatic knowledge base.
		In the case of children, it might be wise to check with the speech language pathologist about language comprehension so that one does not further frustrate a child by informal instruction that is, to use an idiom, "above his or her head" or level of interest.
	www.iidc.indiana.edu /irca/communication/figlanguage.html (1718 words)

	Figurative Language
		Figurative language is used in all types of creative writing, but is particularly important in poetry.
		When a writer uses figurative language he is making a comparison between two things that would ordinarily not be thought of together.
		Figurative language is generally divided into three kinds of figures of speech: Simile, Metaphor, and Personification.
	www.resaacademy.org /figlang.htm (205 words)

	Bible Interpretation 05
		Figurative language involves "the representation of one concept in terms of another because the nature of the two things compared allows such an analogy to be drawn.
		Figurative speech, as already discussed, is a picturesque, out-of-the-ordinary way of presenting literal facts that might otherwise be stated in a normal, plain, ordinary way.
		Sometimes a normal statement is wrongly taken as a figure of speech; for example, when John wrote that 144,000 will be sealed with 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes of Israel (Rev 7:4-8), there is no compelling reason to understand this statement figuratively.
	www.spiritandtruth.org /teaching/Bible_Interpretation/05_Special/05_Special_Notes.htm (3028 words)

	What is Chiasmus
		Figurative language is language that is deliberately different from the way people normally speak or write.
		Some figures, like metaphors or similes, are so common they don't appear to depart much from standard usage; in fact, unless grandly phrased, they don't necessarily stand out.
		Figurative language is an important part of what brings richness and beauty to poetry, writing, and oratory.
	www.chiasmus.com /whatischiasmus.shtml (3198 words)

	Figurative Language - An Educator's Reference Desk Lesson Plan
		Students will be able to create their own examples of figurative language by writing a poem using similes, metaphors, and personification.
		Students will be able to understand the importance of incorporating figurative language into their own writing both inside and outside of class.
		The point is for the students to understand that they must read carefully to identify figurative language and appreciate the author's effort in adding details such as figurative language into their writing.
	www.eduref.org /Virtual/Lessons/Language_Arts/Process_Skills/LPS0205.html (1488 words)

	eye think lab
		Even though figurative language is pervasive in all cultures and all settings (Gibbs, 1994), eye movement research has focused on literal language.
		In these experiments, all we manipulated was the presence of figurative language, a change that did not alter the literal meaning or truth conditions of the sentence.
		Our findings, which have consequences for both the linguistic accounts of figurative language and the scope of top-down influences in visual perception, help illuminate the ways in which verbal and visual processes are intertwined.
	psych.ucsc.edu /eyethink/figurative_language.html (710 words)

	Figurative Language
		Instead, figurative language must be understood as a whole expression.
		Figurative expressions are used by writers and speakers to give a mental picture to the listener or the reader.
		The writer uses language in a creative way (not in the literal sense) in order to give the reader a mental image.
	vclass.mtsac.edu:920 /readroom/figures.htm (411 words)

	Quizlet Search
		Hyperbole → A figure of speech in which an overstatement or exaggeration is used for deliberate effect.
		Hyperbole → A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton.
		figurative language → A technique in writing in which the author temporarily interrupts the order, construction, or meaning of the writing for a particular effect.
	quizlet.com /search/hyperbole (1299 words)

	Figurative Language
		Any language that goes beyond the literal meaning of words in order to furnish new effects or fresh insights into an idea or a subject.
		A figure of speech which involves an implied comparison between two relatively unlike things using a form of be.
		It is a comparison which the author uses to show something in an entirely new light, to communicate a certain feeling or attitude towards it and to control the way a reader perceives it.
	www.orangeusd.k12.ca.us /yorba/figurative_language.htm (296 words)

	Literal and figurative language - Gurupedia
		Expressions said to be in figurative language are called figures of speech.
		More recently, some have boiled the number into a much smaller number; some, for example, claim to be able to classify all figurative language as either metaphor or metonymy.
		Cognitive linguistics, in particular, may ultimately declare all distinction between literal language and figurative language outdated.
	www.gurupedia.com /f/fi/figurative_language.htm (554 words)

	Lesson Seeds ~ VSC 3.A.7.c ~ Reading Grade 6 ~ School Improvement in Maryland
		Prior to reading a literary text selected for its use of figurative language, the teacher will read aloud a series of short literary texts from a variety of authors, each of which will display a distinctive style.
		Students will then be instructed to read that literary text noting where multiple examples of figurative language have already been marked in the text.
		After reading is complete, the teacher and students will identify the type of figurative language, its meaning, and the effect the language has on the reader.
	www.mdk12.org /instruction/lessons/reading/grade6/3A7c.html (350 words)

	Teaching Resources - Figurative Language (Suzanne Clark, English)
		Literary language makes notable use of figures such as metaphor, metonymy, simile, anaphora (repetition), personification, and many others to heighten attention to language itself and its symbolic, emotional, mythic, or uncanny dimensions.
		Thus the analysis of figure often becomes a significant part of interpretation, tracing possible internal connections in the text and the textual resonance with cultural and psychic themes.
		Cliches are figures on their way to becoming unconscious, although the disappearing meanings may be of considerable significance.
	tep.uoregon.edu /resources/exchange/writing/figurativelanguage/figlangsc.html (682 words)

	Mrs. Dowling's Literature Terms-Figure of Speech
		The opposite of literal language is figurative language.
		Figurative language is language that means more than what it says on the surface.
		Poets use figurative language almost as frequently as literal language.
	www.dowlingcentral.com /MrsD/area/literature/Terms/figspeech.html (356 words)

	mywordsontheweb.com » Figurative Language
		However, while metaphor should be a central part of any inquiry which purports to provide a general explanation of language and communication, the important puzzles about language and meaning which metaphor raises are frequently treated as a peripheral issues in semantic theory, if they are mentioned at all.
		Contemporary philosophers of language who are exceptions to the general pattern of neglect include Davidson (1978), whose deflationary view is that that there is no special category of metaphorical meaning distinct from literal meaning, and Searle (1979).
		Clichés are usually forms of figurative language (”dead as a doornail,” “cutting edge,” “an axe to grind,” “a bone to pick,” etc.).
	www.mywordsontheweb.com /figurative-language (1109 words)

	Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media: Conferences
		Figurative language, such as metaphor, metonymy, idioms, personification, simile among others, is in abundance in natural discourse.
		It is an effective apparatus to heighten effect and convey various meanings, such as humor, irony, sarcasm, affection, etc. Figurative language can be found not only in fiction, but also in everyday speech, newspaper articles, research papers, and even technical reports.
		The recognition of figurative language use and the computation of figurative language meaning constitute one of the hardest problems for a variety of natural language processing tasks, such as machine translation, text summarization, information retrieval, and question answering.
	datamining.typepad.com /data_mining/conferences (349 words)

	Literal and Figurative Language in the Bible
		Insisting on the literal meaning as being true and accurate, and figurative interpretation as a watering down of the intended meaning, is an exaggeration.
		The evidence is clear that parts of the Bible are meant figuratively, and we are rejecting the Word of God if we refuse to consider the possibility of figures of speech.
		It is dishonest to reject figurative meanings when they were intended, just as it is dishonest to read them where they shouldn't be.
	www.wcg.org /lit/bible/literal2.htm (1901 words)

	Imagery and Figurative Language
		The clock in Housman's "Eight O'clock" is personified: it "sprinkle[s]" the quarter hours on the town and figuratively "strikes" the "he" of the poem, as well as literally "strik[ing]" (chiming) the hour of the morning.
		metonymy: a figure of speech which is characterized by the substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself, as in "In the sweat of thy face shall thou eat bread." Here, "sweat" stands for hard labor.
		In Housman's "Eight O'Clock," one could argue that the clock is a metonymy for the individual who instigates the literal or figurative death of the "he": the clock stands in for the active agent who will "kill" the subject of the poem.
	www.k-state.edu /english/nelp/childlit/papers/imagery_and_fig_lang.html (716 words)

	ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan: Figurative Language Awards Ceremony
		acquire a clear understanding of the concept of the figurative language devices of simile, metaphor, and personification.
		The students will be using their knowledge of literary devices to host an “awards ceremony” for the best use of figurative language.
		Students are divided into their original groups and asked to compose an “Acceptance Speech” for the “Figurative Language Award.” Tell them to use as many of their literary devices (simile, metaphor, personification) as they can in their speech.
	www.readwritethink.org /lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=115 (1140 words)

	Exploring Language: Making Comparisons [English Online]
		For example, the relationships between different European languages are very often described in terms of a family tree, with many languages descending from the ancestral language, Indo-European.
		In this analogy, languages are born and die like people; they have offspring (usually daughters) and close and distant relations.
		Exploring Language is reproduced by permission of the publishers Learning Media Limited on behalf of Ministry of Education, P O Box 3293, Wellington, New Zealand, © Crown, 1996.
	english.unitecnology.ac.nz /resources/resources/exp_lang/comparisons.html (419 words)

	Figurative Language
		- Figurative language is not intended to be interpreted in a literal sense.
		Figurative language compares two things that are different in enough ways so that their similarities, when pointed out, are interesting, unique and/or surprising.
		All aspects of figurativeness (metaphor, idiomaticity, and semantic extension) seem to present difficulty for learners.
	www.42explore.com /figlang.htm (739 words)

	Figurative Language Lesson
		Students should record the literal and figurative descriptions on their chart for the first round.
		Return to the Langston Hughes poem and ask students to identify the literal meaning of the poem, and the figurative language used by the poet.
		Students will define the terms "simile" and "metaphor", identify them in a poem and use one of their figurative images to write a poem containing a simile or metaphor.
	www.cal.org /siop/lessons/LPBF.html (567 words)

	Communicating with Cards: Figurative Language Learning Centre Activities [English Online]
		Look for examples in writing models from the Figurative Language Resource List, write and model some as a teacher, and let the students write some too.
		Put all the figurative language examples written on cards (above) into a "surprise box", or several surprise boxes, one for each group.
		Their group task is to find and cut out one example or a prescribed number of examples, of a given list of figurative language examples eg.
	english.unitecnology.ac.nz /resources/units/mother/figurative_learning.html (681 words)

	Translating Poetry and Figurative Language into St. Lucian Creole
		Translation of poetry and figurative language must then involve not only an examination of the intended meaning of the author and the formal devices used in the source language, but also an examination of the poetic forms, if they exist, and the figurative devices available in the receptor language.
		The translator would then re-express the poetic and figurative language of the source language in the receptor language fluently as though he were creating an original work of art.
		If we are dealing with a discourse genre where figurative language is used, since sometimes in translation a simile has to be abandoned because it might not communicate effectively, it is also reasonable to think that sometimes a simile might be introduced where there was not one in the source text.
	linguafranka.net /saintluciancreole/workpapers/10.htm (8638 words)

	Figurative Language
		Figurative language uses "figures of speech" - a way of saying something other than the literal meaning of the words.
		A figure of speech which mentions a part of something to suggest the whole.
		Verbal irony is a figure of speech when an expression used is the opposite of the thought in the speaker's mind, thus conveying a meaning that contradicts the literal definition.
	www.frostfriends.org /figurative.html (1585 words)

	Linguist List - Book Information
		The aim of this study is to discover basic principles underlying linguistic figurativeness and to develop a theory that is capable of capturing conventional figurative language (referred to as CFLT, i.e.
		The main topic of this work is the relationship between the figurative meaning of a lexical unit and the mental images that form its conceptual basis.
		Of all the possible types of knowledge relevant to conventional figurative language, so-called "cultural knowledge" can be shown to be crucial.
	linguistlist.org /pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=15513 (261 words)

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