I found many statements in “See Through Words” that I thought were important to note in order to better my understanding of the article. One of the most significant of these annotations is the connection to James Geary’s TED talk that we watched earlier last week. The metaphor was “my job is a jail”. I remember this perfectly in the talk because what Geary said stuck with me. He exclaimed that in an examination regarding metaphors and false sentences, participants were more likely to choose metaphors to be true. I was almost amused by this until I thought of myself taking part in this experiment. I inferred that I would most likely do the same thing. When referenced in the article, it talks about the irreversibility of metaphors.

Another subject in the article that I felt was important to take note of was the cases in which metaphors don’t “work”. In the instance mentioned in the article, the metaphor was comparing children to an orchid or a dandelion. The metaphor was aiming to hint that children who were dandelions thrived in a range of circumstances and children who resonated with orchids only survived in a narrow range of circumstances. However, it was taken by the general public as the children who were orchids were rare and special and the children who were dandelions were a common pest. This is significant because the goal of a metaphor is to invoke a cognitive response, enabling the reader to better understand the metaphor’s target. However, this worked in the opposite favor of the writer.