What I Knew:
Before reading the article, I was familiar with figurative language and reading comprehension. I knew that figurative language included similes, metaphors, personifications, alliterations, hyperboles, and idioms. In grade school, I learned that a simile used words such as “like” or as” to compare one idea or object to another to suggest that they are alike, metaphors are figures of speech that compare two dissimilar things, personifications are figures of speech in which there is a comparison between human characteristics and inanimate objects or abstractions, alliterations are the repetitions of the same first letter, sound, or group of sounds in a series of words, hyperboles are exaggerations that people find hard to believe …show more content…
It also portrays people emotions more acutely than it would in a literal sentence. Before reading, I also had an understanding of reading comprehension, which is the act of understanding what you are reading. Reading comprehension is an interactive process that occurs after, during, and before a person reads.
What I Wanted To Know:
Before reading, I hoped to have an enhanced understanding of figurative language, how someone learns the information, and how it involves reading curriculum. I also hoped to gain more knowledge on figurative language tests that can access students who are unable to comprehend figurative language.
What I …show more content…
I absorbed information on figures of speech, various types of figurative language, published research on figurative language, how figurative language impacts English language learners, and in what way is figurative language and reading comprehension taught to someone who has a specific learning disability. I learned about allusions, which are generally the most difficult examples of figurative language to comprehend because they need the reader to have a specific amount of background knowledge. For example, due to me not having an understanding of classical mythologist, I had no understanding of what the following statement means: “The virus that attacked my computer was a Trojan horse”. This sentence alludes to the tale of the Greek invasion by trickery of the ancient city of Troy to describe a type of computer virus, which I not educated on. McNeil (1987) defined schemata broadly as the reader’s concepts, beliefs, expectations, everything from a person’s past experiences—that one uses in making sense of text, etc. I found schemata as a very hard task for those who are English language learners because if a person comes from Barcelona, Spain, he or she will be unaware of the figurative language used in the United States (US), unless they often read articles from the US or if they learn from someone in the US. Tompkins (2001) informed me that idiomatic expressions are
Before reading the article, I was familiar with figurative language and reading comprehension. I knew that figurative language included similes, metaphors, personifications, alliterations, hyperboles, and idioms. In grade school, I learned that a simile used words such as “like” or as” to compare one idea or object to another to suggest that they are alike, metaphors are figures of speech that compare two dissimilar things, personifications are figures of speech in which there is a comparison between human characteristics and inanimate objects or abstractions, alliterations are the repetitions of the same first letter, sound, or group of sounds in a series of words, hyperboles are exaggerations that people find hard to believe …show more content…
It also portrays people emotions more acutely than it would in a literal sentence. Before reading, I also had an understanding of reading comprehension, which is the act of understanding what you are reading. Reading comprehension is an interactive process that occurs after, during, and before a person reads.
What I Wanted To Know:
Before reading, I hoped to have an enhanced understanding of figurative language, how someone learns the information, and how it involves reading curriculum. I also hoped to gain more knowledge on figurative language tests that can access students who are unable to comprehend figurative language.
What I …show more content…
I absorbed information on figures of speech, various types of figurative language, published research on figurative language, how figurative language impacts English language learners, and in what way is figurative language and reading comprehension taught to someone who has a specific learning disability. I learned about allusions, which are generally the most difficult examples of figurative language to comprehend because they need the reader to have a specific amount of background knowledge. For example, due to me not having an understanding of classical mythologist, I had no understanding of what the following statement means: “The virus that attacked my computer was a Trojan horse”. This sentence alludes to the tale of the Greek invasion by trickery of the ancient city of Troy to describe a type of computer virus, which I not educated on. McNeil (1987) defined schemata broadly as the reader’s concepts, beliefs, expectations, everything from a person’s past experiences—that one uses in making sense of text, etc. I found schemata as a very hard task for those who are English language learners because if a person comes from Barcelona, Spain, he or she will be unaware of the figurative language used in the United States (US), unless they often read articles from the US or if they learn from someone in the US. Tompkins (2001) informed me that idiomatic expressions are