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Download full textSmith, Edwin H.; Palmer, Barbara C. – 1979
Designed to assess the ability to interpret the major types of figurative language or tropes such as similes, metaphors, proverbs, and personification, the two forms of this instrument each contain 50 items in a two-part, multiple-choice format. Part I tests the meaning of figures of speech in isolation; part II tests the meaning in the context of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Figurative Language, Higher Education, Measures (Individuals)
