Sentences with phrase «figurative language such»

The general characteristics of descriptive essay writing include: • elaborate use of sensory language • rich, vivid, and lively detail • figurative language such as simile, metaphor, personification...

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.

We can guide students in understanding word meanings and how figurative language such as metaphors and similes function in poetry.

Students also learn the meaning of idiomatic expressions or figurative language such as «like a sheet of gray fog.»

RL.5.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.

In all modes of writing figurative language such as metaphors, similes and analogies articulate, enhance, and enrich the content.

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Does this refer simply to families, such as something you might get from James Dobson at Focus on the Family, or it is figurative language for how John will call the children of Israel back into faithful obedience to God, in the same manner as their forefathers (cf. 1:16)?

He hardly speaks in parables at all, though he does use figurative language, and in such discourses as that of the Vine and the Branches, and the Good Shepherd, he does approach the parable type.

Examples of various types of sound devices and figurative language found in the poems, such as alliteration, simile, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia, and imagery.

b) Describe the impact of specific word choices, such as jargon, dialect, multiple meanings, invented words, concrete or abstract terms, and sensory or figurative language.

They measures students» attainment of skills such as understanding story events, drawing conclusions, making predictions, identifying the main idea, using vocabulary strategies, identifying supporting details, identifying point of view, evaluating ideas, understanding features that distinguish genres, and using figurative language to interpret text.

In rhetoric, a figure of speech is a type of figurative language (such as metaphor, irony, understatement, or anaphora) that departs from conventional word order or meaning.

Any student — especially any English language learner — can struggle with such figurative speech, particularly when the implied meaning (i.e., idiom) does not translate to the student's first language.

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

And Gibson knows how to put captivating figurative language to work, such as when she writes that kisses are as «soft as lamb's wool, but strong as steel.»

Genre authors often choose clarity over figurative language that might be a confusing speed bump to readers, but some rhetorical devices help with that issue while also strengthening our voice, slipping in more information (without an info dump), and / or adding sensory information (such as with onomatopoeia words):

Influenced by some of the masters of figurative painting, such as Titian, Rembrandt, and Peter Paul Rubens, Auerbach has helped form a new aesthetic language of painting.

Leveille: I speak in a language of pictures.In a similar way that contemporary figurative painters such as Currin, Kerry James Marshall, and Robin Francis Williams use a sense narrative, I also use it as an artistic tool.This is very inspiring in its own right to me, the exploration of an image, not in service TO narrative but that employs these things as tools to make an emotional connection with the viewer.

As the artist himself has said, «You can't invent a painting from scratch; you are working with an entire tradition... The pictorial language of the 20th century, from Kurt Schwitters's collages to Jackson Pollock's drip paintings, makes up a range of possibilities that I utilise in order to create a transhistorical figurative painting — a painting of the image as such, of representation» (A. Ghenie, quoted in «Adrian Ghenie in Conversation with Magda Radu,» Adrian Ghenie: Darwin's Room, exh.

Such a transition would cancel the most basic material, formal, and conceptual distinctions between literal and figurative languages.

All - media artists, sculptors, and photographers are invited to create visual works that interpret the theme «Figuratively Speaking» in two different ways: by depicting human forms, faces and features in representational or abstract works (portraiture, sculpture and all subject matter including people); or works which depict a broader interpretation of the theme, such as figurative language and figures of speech.