Week 3: Word meaning

Read the following sentences and tick the semantic process by which the CAPITALISED WORDS acquired their meaning

1. He drinks beer and wine, but he doesn't drink any hard LIQUOR.

• broadening

• narrowing

• elevation

• degradation

Read the following sentences and tick the semantic process by which the CAPITALISED WORDS acquired their meaning

2. Those people are ANIMALS and what they did was unforgiveable

• broadening

• narrowing

• elevation

• degradation

Read the following sentences and tick the semantic process by which the CAPITALISED WORDS acquired their meaning

3. It was SILLY of you to go out in the sun without a hat.

• broadening

• narrowing

• elevation

• degradation

Read the following sentences and tick the semantic process by which the CAPITALISED WORDS acquired their meaning

1. They set off on a long JOURNEY.

• broadening

• narrowing

• elevation

• degradation

Identify the type of transference, metonymy or metaphor, in the CAPITALISED WORD.

1.My uncle is usually labelled as the BLACK SHEEP of the family.

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Identify the type of transference, metonymy or metaphor, in the CAPITALISED WORD.

2. Mr. Black is a WALKING ENCYCOPLEDIA

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Identify the type of transference, metonymy or metaphor, in the CAPITALISED WORD..

3.It was cool this morning, but look at how the MERCURY is rising

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Identify the type of transference, metonymy or metaphor, in the CAPITALISED WORD..

4.“The power of the CROWN was mortally weakened”.

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Identify the type of transference, metonymy or metaphor, in the CAPITALISED WORD.

5.I always ordered CAESAR SALAD whenever I came to that restaurant

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Identify the type of transference, metonymy or metaphor, in the CAPITALISED PHRASE.

6. BIRDS OF A FEATHER flock together.

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