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It is important to make your literal definitions accurate. Look at the definitions

below. Which are accurate? Which are not? Rewrite the definitions that are not accurate.

 

1. Art is a mirror of the human soul.

2. Thermostats are devices that regulate heaters and cooling

machines, turning them on and off so they maintain the required

temperature.

3. Wind means destruction from devastating storms, or benefits from

harnessing energy with windmills.

4. Powered flight is the realization of man's fondest dream over

thousands of years.

5. A keynote address is an opening address that outlines the issues to

be considered.

6. A mammal is a vertebrate animal with self-regulating body

temperature and the capability for milk production in the female.

7. Mountain sickness is a sickness people get when they are in the

mountains.

8. Separation anxiety is a negative emotional state that occurs in

small children when they are parted from their parents.

9. Good sense is something everyone should hope to have.
10. Education is the key to prosperity.

 

Exercise 2:

Work with a partner, a group, or alone. Look up the following words in a dictionary and write down their literal meanings. Then write three or four ways in which the definitions might be extended either personally, socially, or culturally.

 

Example:

 

Touch Literal Meaning:   Extended Meaning:     or     or   to bring a bodily part in contact with something.   Different functions in society: a. professional/functional b. social/polite c. friendship, warmth d. love, intimacy     In different cultures: a. in North America b. in Latin America c. in Asia   Necessity for growth and development of certain animals: a. monkeys b. cats c. dogs  

 



1. Space


Literal Meaning:________________________


Extended Meaning:______________________


2. Time


Literal Meaning:________________________

Extended Meaning:______________________


 


3. Smell


Literal Meaning:________________________

Extended Meaning:______________________


 

 

4.Aggressiveness

 

Literal Meaning:________________________

Extended Meaning:______________________

5. Modesty

 

 

Literal Meaning:________________________

Extended Meaning:______________________



6. Respect


Literal Meaning:_________________________


Extended Meaning:_______________________

 

 

►Introduction to the Definition Essay

In the introduction, state the term you are going to define. Then either define it yourself or use a dictionary definition, naming the dictionary and quoting from it. In your thesis statement, restate the term you are going to define and in which way or how you are going to define it, giving two or three aspects with which you will illustrate your definition. Look back at the thesis statement of the student essay to see the three aspects of daily life the student used.

Using etymologies

In your introduction, you may want to look at the word's origin or etymology. Sometimes the original meaning of the word is quite different from its present meaning, and you may want to show this. The Oxford English Dictionary and many other unabridged dictionaries give detailed histories of the origin and development of words. For example, in Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, we see that the word boycott comes from Charles Boycott, a land agent in Ireland who was ostra­cized for refusing to reduce rents; the word prejudice comes from the Latin praejudicium, which is made up of prae, meaning "before" and judicium, which means "judgement."

 




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