Upon completion of my second reading of Erard’s, “See Through Words” I walked away from this experience with a little more understanding of the topic and knowledge of metaphors than I previously had. The first time I read the text, I was confused, I was lost in the meaning of the message he was trying to send in his writing. A big change I saw from my first reading to now is that I was able to digest and understand how the metaphors were categorized and matched. I found, “glossing the text” to be helpful, especially to define words that I misunderstood or did not know at all. Besides that, I was unsure of what to use it for, it was not a tactic my english teachers in high school used when they asked us to read a text. The three words I defined from glossing the text are, hewn, dissonance, and semantic. Hewn can be defined as being given a rough surface. Dissonance means inharmonious or harsh sound. Lastly, semantic can be defined as of, relating to, arising from the different meaning of words or other symbols. A second reading of Michael Erard’s, “See Through Words” helped me to better understand much of what I misunderstood from initially reading it. 

 

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