I was one of the students who missed the metaphor in Tom Johnson's Don't Let Them Take Pencils Home. I now understand why I missed the metaphor. Metaphors are like "reading between the lines", the messages in them are hidden and you as reader have to figure out what is the real message that the writer is trying to tell you. If you don't know or understand metaphors it is easy to miss it when you come encounter with one.
During this fall semester Dr. Strange did not ask us to keep a log of the metaphors that we came encounter with. To help students to better understand metaphors, we should explain it better and have students to regularly work with them so they will be able to know and recognize them when they see them. We use metaphors to add intrest to our conversations and to get people to think differently about a subject.
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