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    GED Reading: Books Online

    Posted on: Thursday, June 4th, 2009 in: Figurative Language, GED Practice Question, Reading

    Hola, GED readers! You know, one of the best ways to improve your reading is to start reading every day. And read things that you like, make it your new hobby. If you read all the time, you’ll get to be a much better reader even before you know it. You can read to your [...]

    GED Reading: Banned Books

    Posted on: Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 in: Figurative Language, GED Practice Question, Reading

    Hola, GED learners! I was just looking around on the Internet, and I came across something I never really thought about too much… how many books have been banned in different places at different times. Books like Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and a lot of other ones you wouldn’t think of, really. [...]

    GED Poetry… Ugh!

    Posted on: Tuesday, January 1st, 2008 in: Figurative Language, Poetry, Reading

    I started out talking about metaphors for the GED reading section last time… (Prospero Año Nuevo, by the way…) Anyway, it led me into poetry. I know, it’s the hardest thing, right? But the GED reading test’s gonna have poetry on it. And sometimes I like poetry, you know. It’s a matter of figuring out [...]

    GED Reading: Metaphor… Saying one thing to mean another…

    Posted on: Monday, December 24th, 2007 in: Figurative Language

    Here’s something you need to know for GED reading… One thing that’s on the GED test and that confuses people when they’re reading (me, at least!) is what’s called a metaphor. Do you remember learning about them in high school? Metaphors are used in literature all the time. That’s when you say one thing, but [...]