The major purpose of this investigation was to determine the relative difficulty of interpreting six common types of tropes. A secondary purpose was to determine if the ability of students to interpret each of the six types of tropes is significantly different between grade six and grade eleven. / The population was composed of 265 sixth-grade students and 329 eleventh-grade students. All of the subjects had at least fifth-grade reading ability. / The instrument used in this study was the Tullos Trope Test developed by the researcher. The instrument was field tested for validity and reliability. / Three hypotheses were tested. Hypothesis one stated that there are no significant differences between the mean scores of six types of tropes for sixth-grade students. This hypothesis was tested using a one-way analysis of variance. The null hypothesis was rejected. A multiple range test identified the significant differences to be between personification; allusion, litotes and synecdoche; hyperbole; and metonymy, with personification being the most difficult type to interpret and metonymy being the easiest. / Hypothesis two stated that there are no significant differences between the mean scores of six types of tropes for eleventh-grade students. This hypothesis was tested using a one-way analysis of variance. The null hypothesis was rejected. A multiple range test identified the significant differences to be between personification; litotes; allusion and synecdoche; hyperbole; and metonymy, with personification being the most difficult type and metonymy being the easiest. / Hypothesis three stated that there are no significant differences between the mean scores of sixth-grade and eleventh-grade students in the ability to interpret each of the six types of tropes. This hypothesis was tested using student t tests. The null hypothesis was rejected. There were significant differences in the mean scores of each trope type between grade six and grade eleven. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 43-07, Section: A, page: 2298. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1982.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74889 |
| Contributors | TULLOS, STANLEY MILLER., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 123 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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