Metaphors are used so commonly today, people don’t realize they are all around them. We hear metaphors in songs on the radio, during advertisements on television, and through everyday conversations. Metaphors are also used to communicate with children. What consequences could arise if children were not taught with metaphors? Metaphors help children understand concepts better, help children develop creativity, and most important help children of different abilities learn in different ways. Three articles are used to describe how metaphors are an important detail of everyday life, although each article has a different view on how metaphors truly form us. Khullar believes that metaphors influence our actions and responses. Although, Geary believes that people use a lot of pattern recognition in their day to day lives. On the other hand, Erard believes that metaphors structure the way we think and talk, can help us solve problems, and trigger emotional responses. The views of these three authors and their opinion on metaphors shows that metaphors have a huge impact on the learning process, especially with children.
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I believe that metaphors have an impact on our learning, how we are shaped, and understand how our minds work. Metaphors are important to everyone, especially children. If we start learning metaphor at a young age, this can create an impact on our learning and really help shape us as we learn from elementary school and then through life. Myself personally did not learn about metaphors into a fuller detail up until my freshmen year of college. Now that I have broadened my knowledge on metaphors from three different texts that I have read. I know truly feel that metaphors shape the way I think about certain situations, help me understand pattern recognition and produce more creativity in my writing. The articles that I have read are written by Erard, Geary, and Khullar. These articles have made me realize how much sooner I wish I have discovered the power of metaphor.
I like your take on the prompt, I feel like it is very unique by focusing on children! One thing I think could be more clear is your personal take on metaphors.
Something I noticed that worked really well in your paragraph is your first two opening sentences. I think they do a great job of showing how present metaphors are and that we don’t always notice them! One thing I think you could change is the use of “important” or “help children” so you don’t have to repeat it too much.
You did very well putting all of your thoughts in an organized manner without repeating yourself.
One thing that you could do to be a little stronger is try to link together where you hear the metaphors with the children because they hear the radio and watch tv. So , when you say “Metaphors are also used to communicate with children” watch the wording because they can hear and see those metaphors too.