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Peer reviewedValeri, Maria; Smith, Edwin H. – Reading Horizons, 1983
Finds that the most common type of figurative language in fourth- and sixth-grade basal readers is personification. Overall, the most commonly used figures of speech are: personification; animal, sense, and inanimate metaphors; and hyperbole. (FL)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Content Analysis, Elementary Education, Figurative Language
