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Using figurative language to expand students' vocabulary
, 1996 Figurative language is an area often neglected in the teaching of vocabulary. This article examines some definitions, and suggests examples of types of figurative language to which students may usefully be exposed in the course of their learning. Arising
Lazar, G.
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IJOTL-TL (Indonesian Journal of Language Teaching and Linguistics), 2017 The aim of this research is to find out the usage of figurative language appear in The Room of My Life’s poem by Anne Sexton and Still I Rise’s poem by Maya Angelou. The study focused on kinds of figurative language that appeared in the poems.
Ary Iswanto Wibowo, Ali Akbar
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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.Human ABCE1 cannot functionally replace its yeast ortholog. Yeast–human chimera analysis identified NBD1 as a major interspecies barrier. Genetic screening yielded hABCE1 revertants that rescue yeast viability but fail to suppress aberrant translation reinitiation in the 3′ UTR.
Eriko Nakata +3 more
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The role of figurative language [PDF]
, 2016 Figurative language refers to words, and groups of words, that exaggerate or alter the usual meanings of the component words. Figurative language may involve analogy to similar concepts or other contexts, and may involve exaggerations.
Sala-Suszyńska, Justyna
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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.This pilot study investigates the potential of Generative AI to provide formative feedback to students. ChatGPT was prompted to provide feedback on Year 1 Bioscience essays, which were evaluated against established good feedback practices. GenAI‐authored feedback had useful elements, but was limited in scope. GenAI may have potential to provide instant,
Annabel Court +3 more
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Figurative language and lexicography
, 2015 This chapter explores the issues in dealing with figurative language in dictionaries. It uses the understanding of “figurative language” that is generally shared by applied and corpus linguists, as opposed to scholars of poetry and literature.
Alice Deignan, Deignan, A
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Characterization of the key membrane protein cytochrome Cyc2 from Ghiorsea bivora
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.This study reports the first detailed biochemical analysis of Cyc2TAG1_1, a cytochrome protein involved in microbial iron oxidation. We produced and purified this enzyme in E. coli, then measured its iron‐oxidizing efficiency, and characterized its electrical and structural properties.
Josiane Azizi +6 more
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A nationwide student survey on biochemistry learning resources in Italy
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.We conducted a survey among Italian university students to investigate their preferred study materials for biochemistry. We then analyzed the collected data to identify these materials. This information may be valuable to the Biochemistry educational community. The graphical abstract was created with Claude (Opus 5.5; Anthropic, 2026).
Anna Marabotti +4 more
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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.Life‐science educators from 14 countries redesigned their own course materials with generative AI in a three‐session, pedagogy‐first FEBS Education and Training Academy workshop built on PICRAT. Among 12 matched respondents, four more reported high confidence in each of five practical domains, and 10 of 13 reported implementing at least one idea ...
Zvonimir Mlinarić, Ali Burak Özkaya
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Aging and Cancer, EarlyView.In patients with malignant ureteral obstruction undergoing percutaneous nephrostomy, sarcopenia defined by a low psoas muscle index was independently associated with poor overall survival on multivariate Cox regression analysis, suggesting that preoperative assessment of psoas muscle index may aid prognostic stratification in this population.
Kota Shimokihara +3 more
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