| Why can visual reading increase reading speed and | | | | thought, one may immediately condemn and |
| comprehension? Reading faster has to do with | | | | disapprove of visual reading. But it must not be |
| approaching the text visually instead of aurally. | | | | ignored that most reading material contains no |
| Depending on the reading material that you | | | | such effects. |
| choose, the amount of auditory effects will vary. | | | | This becomes especially apparent in a lot of the |
| By auditory effects, I mean things like alliteration, | | | | more difficult texts in most of the things we don't |
| where there is intentional repetition of consonant | | | | really enjoy reading, in fact. School and university |
| sounds, which is usually in consecutive words. | | | | textbooks fit into this category. One could even |
| There is also assonance, which is very similar. It | | | | argue that because of this lack of literary device |
| can be described as the repetition of the same | | | | use, reading these materials becomes much more |
| vowel sounds. Both of these are used to create a | | | | difficult. However, that is straying too far off |
| certain effect on the reader. | | | | topic. |
| Also worth mentioning are anaphora, polyptoton, | | | | Textbooks, newspaper articles, information |
| disjunction, epistrophe, onomatopoeia, and | | | | brochures, and instruction booklets have virtually |
| paronomasia. All of these are literary effects you | | | | no use for auditory effects, because they are not |
| may find in poems, short stories, and in good | | | | necessarily written to entertain, but to inform. |
| novels. | | | | It is in this case that visual reading should be |
| Visual reading will essentially prevent all of these | | | | employed. |
| effects from reaching the reader. At first | | | | |