The purpose of this experiment was to examine the effects of inserted analogies on the retention of an expository text. Subjects (80 nudergraduates) read analogies inserted texts or non-inserted texts under either summary or memory instruction. After reading, subjects received a recall test. In the analogy condition, the rate of correctly recalled propositions were higher than in the no-analogy conditions, and the rate of recalled macro-propositions were higher than the rate of recalled micro-propositions. But in the no-analogy condition, the rate of recalled macro-propositions and micro-propositions were found equal. In the analogy-summary condition, the rate of racalled macro-propositions was higher than micro-propositions. It was interpreted that insertion of analogies with a text was to help the construction of a macro-structure.