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Mia Kaasby; Nancy H. Hornberger – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
This article unfolds and argues for Biliteracy Metaphor Analysis (BMA), a methodology for examining the interpretation and use of metaphors in canon literature in a biliteracy context, in this case the canon of Danish literature read and interpreted by multilingual students in a ninth grade classroom. BMA combines Spradley's ethnographic framework…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Monolingualism, Literacy
Yemelyanova, Olena – Advanced Education, 2019
The article deals with the analysis of the addressee's factor foregrounding in the limerick discourse. The study demonstrates that the limerick discourse is characterised by an addresser-writer's and an addressee-reader/listener's reciprocality via idiosyncratic protagonists portrayed by an addresser-writer. A limerick presents a laconic…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Styles, Stereotypes, Humor
Mashhady, Habibollah; Noura, Mahbube – English Language Teaching, 2012
Throughout the history, translation has played an important role in conveying thoughts and knowledge from one nation to other nations. Apart from this importance, the act of translating is not simply changing a message from the source language into the target one; translation is an act of problem-solving. Sometimes it is difficult to solve…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Translation, Problem Solving, Second Languages
Okunowo, Abayomi Victor – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Osundare's writing is generally acknowledged as coterminous with the contentious issues of language, style and meaning in Anglophone modern African literature, and because he is seen as representing a generation of African writers, this study highlights and analyzes aspects of Osundare's creative processes of meaning for his thematic project.…
Descriptors: African Languages, Linguistic Borrowing, African Culture, Form Classes (Languages)
Theodore, Mary Felicia – 1976
This volume defines, explains, and traces the origins of figures of speech and style in poetry. Using examples from the works of Shakespeare, Goldsmith, Byron, Emerson, and countless other poets--well known or obscure, such forms as similies, analogies, prosopopeia, metonomy, and many others are described. (Author/KS)
Descriptors: Definitions, Etymology, Figurative Language, Higher Education

Nowakowska, Nina – Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 1973
Various conceptions of metaphor worked out within a generative framework are presented. The term metaphor is used to denote any instance of figurative language use. It is concluded that the restrictions imposed by Chomsky's theory are too idiosyncratic for any adequate study of metaphor to be developed within its framework. (Available from: See FL…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Generative Grammar, Generative Grammar, Language Styles
Neuenberg, Bernd – Englisch, 1972
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Figurative Language, Humor, Imagery
McKenzie, Hope Bussey – 1978
Intended for college teachers and students of Anglo-Saxon literature, this paper provides an overview of the sophisticated poetic devices used by the "Beowulf" poet. The paper examines how old English words for color range in hues in a way that modern English words do not, and how these words for color are used in "Beowulf."…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Figurative Language, Folk Culture, Imagery
Kingwell, Gail – 1980
A stylistics-based approach to teaching poetry in the English as a foreign language classroom is examined. Since students may not have the linguistic skills to appreciate a poem, an analytical framework is proposed that includes the elements of repetition, confusion, and surprise. Reference is made to two poems, "In a Season of Unemployment"…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, English (Second Language), Figurative Language, Higher Education
Morrissey, Muriel Earhart – The English Leaflet, 1967
In the absence of guidelines for "a purely literary study" of the Bible at the secondary school level, this discussion is offered as one English teacher's approach to teaching the Old Testament. Among the unit's major purposes are to increase students' appreciation of the literary and ethical values of the Bible and to acquaint them with material…
Descriptors: Biblical Literature, Cultural Background, English Curriculum, English Instruction
Markus, Sharyn – 1981
Designed with junior high school students in mind, the activities in this booklet are offered as ways to stimulate interest in writing using as little as ten minutes of class time. The activities are arranged in six sections: (1) developing observation skills and paying attention to details; (2) word play, descriptive words, and word collections…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Convergent Thinking, Creative Writing
Simon, Myron, Ed.; Donaldson, Robert, Ed. – Journal of the Michigan Council of Teachers of English, 1966
The teaching of poetry in secondary and undergraduate classrooms is the subject of the six articles in this publication. Robert Donaldson states that exercises which help students understand the power of language are useful preludes to a semantic approach to poetry. Michael J. Cardone upholds the use of biographical and external evidence in the…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Critical Reading, English Instruction, Figurative Language
McKenzie, Hope Bussey – 1986
Intended for college teachers and students of Anglo-Saxon literature, this paper provides an overview of the poetic devices available to poets of the fourteenth century. The paper examines how the "Pearl" poet made use of numerical symbolism and the principles of formal logic as structural devices, giving examples of these devices from…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Figurative Language, Folk Culture, Higher Education
Hyndman, Roger, Ed. – 1963
Individual approaches to the reading and study of 14 modern poems that have proved their worth and appeal to adolescents are offered in this publication. The poems--by such poets as Marianna Moore, Stephen Spender, W.H. Auden, Wallace Stevens, and Robinson Jeffers--are reprinted; and each is followed by a discussion in which a high school teacher…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Critical Reading, Discussion (Teaching Technique), English Instruction