This week was another week that I was not present in class for some time. I missed Wednesday for a quizbowl tournament, at which we did very well, and Thursday for a homecoming court meeting. Once again, despite my absence from the class, I was able to glean some information from the week. I learned to look at literature in a slightly different way. The use of metaphors to connect works of literature had already been introduced to me before, but the activity this week of actually coming up with a metaphor helped me to apply it in a real situation. My group's metaphor was not that impressive, but it got the job done. We drew a building with the foundation being reading, and each successive level being a new level of understanding through discussion. This played really well into our quote which was something similar to “Discussion of reading might be more important than the solitary act of reading.” We struggled with connecting it to the chapter from How to Read Literature Like a Professor, but managed to do so, albeit loosely. I missed the day that our metaphor was supposed to be presented, so I have no idea how my group did. I did, however, find a list of tips that can be used to make visual metaphors. You can find it here. I am hoping to be in class more next week so I can have more to write about.
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