... students’ literary competence, to develop in them “the fundamental ability of a good reader of literature [, which is] the ability to generalize from the given text either to other aspects of the literary ... aware of, such as the rule of significance, the rule of metaphorical coherence, the rule of totality, the rule of thematic unity, the convention of genre, and other poetic traditions 2parts of ... literal and figurative meanings of idioms help students to realize the absurdity of the literal meanings and provide a link from the literal words to the nonliteral meaning. [These activities]...