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  1. May 2025
    1. The metaphors in the passage above are also familiar: RAIN IS AKNIFE that pierces drought. Although the content words that comprise themetaphors have changed a bit, the function words (italicized)—i.e., articles,prepositions, and conjunctions—have not changed through the centuries.184Function words establish the infrastructure of a sentence inside of which themain content words

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