Figurative language Defining Type of figurative Examples of figurative language 4 Implications for teaching 3 Samples activities 3 “used in some way other than the main or usual meaning‚ to suggest a picture in the mind or make a comparison” (Longman Dictionary of English Language and Culture 1992: 475). Metaphor My love is a rose Rose Love Qualities of the rose Beauty Fragance Softness Carry over Qualities of the love Beauty Fragance Softness
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It is a common experience to walk in urban park‚ then few steps away‚ you just turn the corner‚ pass through lined tall buildings in a narrow street paved with asphalt and you clearly feel that the temperature is higher than in the park. Or maybe‚ you can recall one day in your life when the city was really hot‚ that you decided to spend some time in a shading park where you found some relief. Most of you didn’t know but you experienced what in climate science is called the urban heat island effect
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B’s Penthouse Apt: 723 3rd Ave Floor 4 NY‚ NY 10017 (Midtown East) 2. Meatball Shop: 84 Stanton St (Lower East Side) Only balls on this menu‚ Beef‚ Pork‚ Chicken‚ Vegetable and Special of the Day … (I know‚ how can you call a vegetarian meatball a “Meat”-ball). Grab a few meatball sliders and the first beer of the day. 3. Katz’s Delicatessen: 205 East Houston Street (Lower East Side) Best pastrami sandwich in NYC‚ famous since 1888…and yes‚ they have hot dogs for Bru.
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Early skyscrapers emerged in the US as a result of economic growth‚ the financial organization of American businesses‚ and the intensive use of land. New York was one of the centers of early skyscraper construction‚ New York real estate was broken up into many small areas of land‚ with few large sites. During the first half of the 19th century it became the national center of American finance‚ and the banks in the financial district of Wall Street competed fiercely with English institutions for international
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The use of municipal bonds as a source of financing regional infrastructure development has been carried out in a number of countries. Including the United States which started in 1812 for the construction of the canal in the City of New York (Fahim‚ 2012). Until now the United States is the most advanced in the use of municipal bonds for infrastructure development (Platz‚ 2009). Then Europe is also well advanced with its municipal bond. From 1990 to 2007‚ the total value of municipal bonds issued
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The City that Never Sleeps Ever wonder what’s it like to visit Times Square in New York City? The “crossroads of the world”. People are attached to the beautiful countless shining lights and countless billboards that fill the city. Today Times Square is a tourist magnet; It’s one of the most visited places in the world. In the heart of New York City‚ Times Square attracts many tourists because it’s endless amounts of things to view and do. When you think of Times Square you typically think about
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Tobin Bushart CULF 3331 The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell Report by Tobin Bushart General Themes: While reading The Big Oyster I was able to gather a general theme of what Kurlansky was trying to do‚ and before I give a brief summary of the book I would like to give a short layout of what I think the author was trying to accomplish when writing this book. First off I think the idea was to give a history of Oysters in New York City‚ but while doing do Kurlansky seemed to try and give
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Miriam Toews’ second novel starts with a funny-sad zinger: “Half of our family‚ the better-looking half‚ is missing‚” and right away we’re hooked on our narrator’s mournful smarts. Laconic‚ restless‚ sixteen-year-old Naomi “Nomi” Nickel doesn’t fit in. Her mother and sister left town three years ago. Her Dad is adrift. Her best friend is in hospital with a mysterious disease. Her family home is starting to sprout broken windows. The big picture is even worse: every functioning adult in Nomi’s
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Hi‚ Good Morning my name is Taylor Wynn and I chose to research Lisa Leslie. She was born on July 7‚ 1972 in Los Angles. Lisa Leslie was an excellent basketball player in WNBA. She had intended to play basketball just so people could stop asking her if she was a basketball player. Her high school team talked her into trying out for the high school basketball team. Lisa got her high school into state layoff. Then Lisa Leslie begins to get serious about ball. In Lisa Last year of high school
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The view is breathtaking. It’s nighttime in New York City: buildings are lit and sparkling‚ brightening the clear‚ purple-hued sky and reflecting in the otherwise dark water. On the right‚ a young man and woman are visible through a partitioned floor-to-ceiling window in a skyscraper they occupy. It is not the view of the city you’d expect to see: the United Nations building looms large in the foreground‚ and the man and women face the water‚ the city hidden mostly behind them. The man and woman
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