Sentences with word «nonliteral»

Children demonstrated increased understanding of nonliteral language and use of social skills, and a substantial decrease in the severity of autism spectrum symptoms.
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.
a Distinguish the literal and nonliteral meanings of words and phrases in context.
Andrew M. Greeley, «Comment on Hunt's» Mythological - Symbolic Religious Commitment: The LAM Scales,»» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 11 (1972): 287 - 92, proposes a fourth nonliteral but transcendent category for the scales but argues only for its legitimacy as an autonomous position, not, as I do, for its role in completing a quadripolar approach to world view.
Is it possible parts of the bible are to be taken in nonliteral translation and is rather just an understanding that God was a part of it.
It is what is proposed hypothetically through the articulation of a language that it is in part nonliteral.
by Eerdmans) to demonstrate forced harmonization, resort to nonliteral interpretation, and other dodges used to maintain the inerrancy assumption.
This dramedy is chock full of literal and nonliteral humor with brilliant choices of phrasing and timing.
And MathleticDepartment took to mopping the computer's nonliteral floor in a slamming»90s basketball game:
For instance, Rama finds that patients who have lesions in a cross-modal brain region called the inferior parietal lobule have difficulty both with the bouba / kiki task and with interpreting proverbs or stories that have nonliteral meanings.
When I say, «I look on Mary as a sister,» this is nonliteral.
Onlooks may be literal or nonliteral.
But this is a distinction without a difference: the appropriate (nonliteral, nonphysical) meaning of nuda is simply «bare, mere, alone, only.»
This statement demonstrates a new understanding about poetry — that nonliteral meanings are possible.
Starting in third grade, students are expected to demonstrate knowledge of literal and nonliteral (i.e. figurative) language.
So K - 12 teachers must regularly incorporate idioms into language arts lesson plans to ensure students understand not only these nonliteral figures of speech, but also have experience figuring out their meaning when confronted with unfamiliar idioms.
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