Sentences with phrase «about figurative language»

Other activities include comprehension questions about figurative language.

For example, if the mini-lesson is about figurative language, students should be looking for examples of figurative language in their books.

Figurative Language Quizzes 1 & 2 To finish out the figurative language worksheets, students will work through two quizzes to test everything they have learned about figurative language.

One way to help your child understand what you mean when you talk about figurative language is to have him look at some of his Valentine's Day cards.

Forget being able to talk about figurative language.

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The debate about the symbolic dimension of expression, about the relation between literal and figurative uses of language, is an academic battleground.

When I'm walking around the room when the children are making their books, you hear a lot of great conversation about... the figurative language part versus the literal part of the idiom.»

From year 1 through to year 6 there are suggestions as to how the children might go about composing their own poems using a range of poetic devices and figurative language using the selected poems as models.

This versatile bundle of resources will open up your students» imaginations as they learn about observing details, writing with precision, and using figurative language.

This bundle contains 15 ready - to - use figurative language worksheets that are perfect for students to learn about and identify the seven common types of figurative language: simile, metaphor, idioms, personification, onomatopoeia, alliteration and hyperbole.

Learn about more types of figurative language: hyperbole, metaphors, personification and similes.

One reason the expression kept playing is that I've been thinking about how we can help students learn idioms and figurative language.

Students» elementary education about literary devices seems to max out with personification, similes, and other types of figurative language.

You might include mini-lessons about literary devices such as imagery, figurative language, alliteration, consonance, dissonance, assonance, and repetition.

His work was not just about copying and the act of appropriation: it was also an existential gesture made by a realist artist, speaking through a figurative language of his relationship to his subject matter.

While there has been much discussion about Magritte's interest in, and use of language in his work, this exhibition seeks to highlight the evolution of his word - pictures in the context of their metaphorical function; as figurative, and even abstract gestures that stand in for conceptual tropes, forcing the recipient of the message to complete an unbridgeable gap using their imagination.