Research into figurative language requires observers who are trained to identify and record figures of speech with a high degree of reliability. This present manual serves that purpose. Divided into four major parts, each part presents a particular class of figurative language, including a general description of the class of tropes represented in…

An experimental approach designed to help fifth grade students to consciously use figurative language in their writing proved quite successful. (DD)

Ability to recognize and understand figurative language is crucial to successful reading. (Author)

Argues that students can be made more aware of language used in the "real" world by introducing them to figures of speech. (MS)

Analyzes Bob Dylan's music in terms of its similarity with the themes and imagery found in the works of T. S. Eliot, concluding that Dylan should be accepted as an important literary figure. (RB)

A discussion of how a poem tells us through a more or less emotional reaction, something that cannot be said." (Author/RD)

Argues for including some literary style in technical writing. Examines literary devices that can be used in technical writing, such as metaphor, simile, climax, and alliteration, and provides guidelines for their effective use in professional communication. (HTH)

Relates the experience of hearing what sounds can achieve to echo, enforce, and enrich meaning in the teaching of poetry. (HOD)

Examines the problems of clarity, precision, and consistency found in dictionaries' treatment of the adjective "devergonde" and the noun "devergondage," particulary in their figurative forms. (AM)

A study of children's ability to translate figurative speech across four grade levels indicates that most third graders could correctly translate metaphors and dual function words but that proverbs were not generally understood until the seventh grade. (Editor)

Presents a syntax of metophor, discussing a typology of metaphor, the relationship between literal sense and figurative sense, and the importance of a precise definition of metaphor. (AM)

Metaphors give the brain a filtering system for handling overwhelming flood of incoming facts. Teaching and learning are definitely influenced by mental filtering systems; one student can view school as prison, another as a friendly gathering place to plan for future. This article compares teaching to a fishing expedition, replete with…

Outlines and discusses historical and contemporary theory concerned with the definition and consideration of simile. Provides an overview of the views of the most prominent critics and theorists with regard to simile. Compares how the literal and the figurative types of simile diverge. (HB)

Describes in some detail the structure of metaphor and metonymy, reviewing three main structures of metaphor--supposition, extension, and apposition--and proposing a comprehensive definition of metaphor taking all three structures into account. Draws on Roman Jakobson when explaining Jacques Lacan's claim that condensation is metaphor and…