Sentences with phrase «figurative meaning»

To deepen word knowledge and comprehension, students can create «Word Maps» for a selection of words to demonstrate their understanding of literal and figurative meanings of words, etymology, use, derivatives, parts of speech, and so forth.

Even so, we are far more likely to paint for our readers a broad range of figurative meaning by keeping close to the literal field wherein that meaning takes root and flourishes, than by dispensing with the literal, and losing it and much of the figurative to boot.

In science fiction, the end is triggered by less figurative means: nuclear holocaust, biological warfare / pandemic, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm.

«Dead» has two figurative meanings.

We use the term «At Home» in a literal way, to suggest that the course is geared to family and caregivers and out - of - school contexts; and we also use the figurative meaning: to be comfortable with; being «at home with» MI theory and what it suggests and can inspire in your family life.

Was your teacher effective in helping you learn to interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone?

R.CCR.4: Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.

But it is less clear when the expression took on a figurative meaning of asking who is in charge of something other than an actual store.

CCRA.R.4), which asks that students «interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings,» is practically an invitation to call on graphic novels; the strong visual platform inherent in their construction is so conducive to just this sort of interpretation.

How To Capture A Martini — it wasn't until the end of the book that I figured out the title's figurative meaning.

The featured artists communicate narratives in artistic mediums ranging from painting to sculpture, from film to mixed media, and through both abstract and figurative means.

Presenting strong symbols of civilizations through visual and written material, the works in the exhibition investigate the rituals of our daily life through the figurative meaning of an artefact and question, in the current climate of constant change, what should be conserved from the past for future archaeologists and how does this influence our historiography.

If we resist imputing some figurative meaning and simply encounter the work as direct experience in the «here and now» we can enter into a dialogue with the work that points to a more authentic encounter.