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Primary/Elementary School:
Tools of Oral Language: Mythic Understanding

Middle/Secondary School:
Tools of Written Language: Romantic Understanding

Senior Secondary School:
Tools of Theoretical Language: Philosophic Understanding

Abstract Binary Oppositions

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Affective Mental Imagery

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Games, Drama, and Play

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Joking and Humour

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Metaphor

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Narratizing and Personalizing

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Puzzles and a Sense of Mystery

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Rhyme, Rhythm, and Pattern

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Story/Story Form

Associations with the Heroic

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Change of Context

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Collections and Hobbies

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Extreme of Experience and Limits of Reality

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Humanization of Meaning

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Narrative Structure

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Revolt and Idealism

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The Literate Eye

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Sense of Wonder

General Ideas and Anomalies

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Meta-Narratives

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Search for Authority and Truth

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Sense of Abstract Reality

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Sense of Agency