Teaching Resource/material. Classroom. Notes.
Subject : English Language
Learning Methode : Noticing Nota Bene
K12
"special feature, special phrasing, a peculiarity". a phrase or a fixed expression that has a figurative, or sometimes literal, meaning. Categorized as formulaic
language. Expressions such as these have figurative meaning. When one says "The devil is in the details", one is not expressing a belief in demons, but rather one
means that things may look good on the surface, but upon scrutiny, undesirable aspects are revealed. Similarly, when one says "The early bird gets the worm", one is
not suggesting that there is only one opportunity; rather one means there are plenty of opportunities, but for the sake of the idiom one plays along, and imagines that
there is only one. Alternatively, the figurative translation of this phrase is that the most attentive and astute individual, or perhaps the hardest working or most
opportunistic receives the most desirable opportunity.
Details
- Publication Date
- Dec 11, 2016
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781365600807
- Category
- Education & Language
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): I M
Specifications
- Format
- EPUB