(Q1) 21st Long quiz (1-4)

Daniel j. Kurland
Restatement
Description
Interpretation

Modes of Analysis (_)
Says / _
Does / _
Means / _

Recognize the author’s purpose
Understand the tone and persuasive elements of the text.
Recognize bias

Three main goals of critical reading: (R U R)

Previewing
Annotating
Contextualizing
Outlining and Summarizing
Analyzing
Rereading
Responding

Seven Critical Reading Strategies: (P A C O A R R)

Previewing

• Before you begin reading the text, _it by getting information about it.

Annotating

• highlighting or making notes of important ideas in the text.

• Thesis, topic sentence, key concepts, unfamiliar words

• Make notes

• Symbol system

Contextualizing
historical
Cultural
Biographical

• you consider the _, _, or _ context of the text.

Outlining and Summarizing

• _ identify the basic structures and make connections between ideas.

• _ reviewing and synthesizing important ideas and then restating them in your own words.

Analyzing

• examining the information presented to support the author’s argument(s)

Rereading

• Repeated examination of the text to enable you to improve your comprehension of the text.

Responding

• Drawing meaning from what you have read and presenting it in writing or talking about it to others.

Structuralism

• relays the texts being examined to larger structure.

• Capital letters, Highlighted words, Italize, dashes, Ellipsis, and Quotation.

Formalism

• focuses on the structure of a particular text.

• Rhyme scheme, Tone and mood, and Figure of speech…

Poststructuralism

• Language is changing; Reader’s POV

Biography
Autobiography

• Reading the author’s _ or _ helps you see how much experiences shape his or her work directly and indirectly.

Believes
Belief system
Indicative

Biographical Strategies:

• research on what the author _ in also what she does not.

• Analyze how the author’s _ is reflected in his work.

• look at the author’s other works and analyze if there is a pattern with regard to the theme and that is _ of his belief.
  

Year
Significant
Author’s life
Circumstances
Drafts
Characters
Representative

Reading literature through a biographical context:

• In what _ was the test written and published?

• Is there anything _ that happened in the _ during this time?

• What were the _ that happened to the author before writing of the text?

• Were there several _ of the text?

• Are there _ and situations in the text that could be _ of or are similar to the one’s in the author’s life?

not
confessional
biographical
true to life

take note of the following:

• You should _ assume that all works are _, _, or even _.

Marxism
Feminism
Queer theory
Historicism
Postcolonialism
New Historicism

What are the literary theories? (M F Q H P N)

Marxism

• Shows class struggle and materialism

Feminism

• examines the role of the women in the literature

Queer theory

• concerned with the queer or the LGBT.

Historicism

• It sees the text as a reflection of the past. the author’s work reflects the values and issues in their era.

• is a perspective dealing with the history that influenced the writing of literature.

Postcolonialism

• Literary perspective that looks into attitudes/changes after the colonial period.

New Historicism

• focuses how the history happened, not only when the history happened.

Literary Reading through a Biographical Context
Literary Reading through a Sociocultural Context
Literary Reading through a Linguistic Context 
Critical Reading Strategies in Literature

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