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Volume 9, Numéro 2, Pages 489-498
2018-11-20

Teaching Figurative Language

Authors : Sellam Latifa .

Abstract

Rhetoric is the act of discourse, an art that aims to improve the facility of speakers or writers who attempt to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences. Those who employ a figure of speech may do so with different aspects in mind or with a different feature in view, so that even when the depotatum is the same, the significatum will vary . That is why a single image may fulfil several different purposes or meanings even while it remains the same (Egan, 1998, p.125), and this is figurative language.

Keywords

Figurative language ; teaching ; figures of speech ; conceptual system ; L2 learners