"The students who were taking longhand notes in our studies were forced to be more selective
Being selective helps you catergize what you know and what you need to learn so you don't have to go back and re read something that you are confidant about knowing.
it's so easy to click over to Facebook in that dull lecture.
It is very easy to be be able to just open up a new tab and now retain anything you are learning because you are making sure your social status is ok.
One preschooler described his mother as “sweet” but only because she cooked sweet things, not because she was nice.
this ties back to the start, when they said younger kids tie things togher with other things. This kid connects sweet with things they can eat rather then a personaitly trait.
Five- to six-year-olds tended to move the Sally doll through the air when the last sentence was “Sally was a bird flying to her nest,” taking the phrase literally. Eight- to nine-year-olds, however, tended to move her quickly across the ground, taking the phrase metaphorically.
As we grow older we began to take sentences more litterally and lose that sense of imagination.
cornucopia
noun a symbol of plenty consisting of a goat's horn overflowing with flowers, fruit, and corn.
Once you twig to metaphor’s modus operandi, you’ll find its fingerprints on absolutely everything.
Uses methaphor to connect metaphors to what we are talking about in this article.
to politics and business, to science and psychology.
Connectiong a metaphor (what we normaly assosate with writing) into the world and into a bigger picture
Metaphor is most familiar as the literary device through which we describe one thing in terms of another
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