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<strong>More</strong> <strong>Nursery</strong> <strong>Rhymes</strong>/<strong>Vocabulary</strong> Words. p.2.<br />

Mistress Mary<br />

Mistress Mary quite contrary,<br />

How does your garden grow?<br />

With silver bells and cockle shells,<br />

And pretty maids all in a row.<br />

Definitions:<br />

cockle – n. A small mollusk with a rounded or ridge-shaped shell in<br />

two parts.<br />

contrary – adj. Not at all in agreement with something.<br />

maid – n. A young unmarried woman.<br />

metaphor – n. Using a word or phrase that is not meant literally<br />

but makes a <strong>com</strong>parison.<br />

The flowers are like pretty maids all in a row.<br />

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