Thompson article - Fiction

This article was very confusing but in a nutshell it basically looked at differences between fiction made primarilly for children and fiction made for adults. It looked at the volume of certain words and phrases within either type of fiction and compared the two findings. In adult fiction, there were often words which were used more often due to he fact that children have a smaller vocab and often cannot understand some words or the literal meanings behind some words or phrases. Adults, on the other hand, are able to depict different meanings for words and can understand certain words or phrases better than children. This study just looked at the number of words and phrases within childrens and adult fiction and the reasons for these differences, which was ability to understand and differentiate literal versus figurative meanings and various definitions of the same words