Instructional Note: Using The Devil’s Dictionary to Teach Definitions

Mary T. Lane

doi:10.58680/tetyc20043020

ISSN: 0098-6291
E-ISSN: 1943-2356

Instructional Note: Using The Devil’s Dictionary to Teach Definitions
Author(s): Mary T. Lane
Source: Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Volume 31, Issue 4, May 2004, p. 358 - 359
DOI: https://doi.org/10.58680/tetyc20043020
- Published online: 01 May 2004

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Ambrose Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary can be used as a model to help students understand the structure of a definition and write creative, witty definitions of their own.

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