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Peer reviewedReynolds, Ralph E.; Ortony, Andrew – Child Development, 1980
Subjects ranging in age from 7 to 12 years selected correct story completion alternatives significantly more often when these alternatives were similes than when they were semantically equivalent metaphors, and when alternatives specifically denoted the referent of the metaphorical comparison than when the identity of the referent had to be…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Ability, Comprehension, Elementary Education
