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Nonliteral Meaning - Assignment 3
James Madison University
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Instructions: [This assignment will be marked only as an acceptable or unacceptable effort.]
- Consider the following word-shapes tool, utensil, spoon, fork, and tablespoon. Describe as many semantic relations between them as you can
(using your own personal understanding of these words, not a dictionary :)).
- Give your own definition for a lexeme SPOON (more specifically, choose just one specific definition associated with the word-shape tool) that uses one of the other words above as the classifier in your definition. Explain why you chose that particular classifier.
- What's an example for you of a typical tool? Use the correct test to demonstrate why your choice seems typical.
- In what way(s), if any, might your encyclopedic knowledge about spoons and shovels be connected?
ENG302, fall 2016, © JMU