Close Reading : An Introduction to Literature
ISBN: 9780132436564 | 0132436566
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 9/29/2009
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Written for an Introduction to Literature course, Close Reading allows students to examine the language and structure of a text, as well as the ideas or feelings it expresses, and to investigate the intricate links between form and content. It helps students to see such issues as sound and rhythm, imagery and figurative language, voice, the way characters are portrayed, the importance of setting, plot structure - all the elements that make literature 'literary' - changes the way in which they approach their study of literature. Covers poetry, f... MORE
| Preface | |
| Introduction to Close Reading | |
| Poetry | |
| Aspects of PoetryLyric poetry and narrative poetry | |
| Formal characteristics of poetry | |
| Ambiguity | |
| Vocabulary | |
| Denotations and connotations | |
| Semantic fields | |
| Specialized vocabulary | |
| Exercises on vocabulary | |
| Imagery... MORE | |
| Figurative Language Simile and Metaphor Allegory, Anaphora Antithesis Apostrophe, Hyperbole Irony Litotes, Metonymy, Oxymoron Paradox, Personification Symbol Synecdoche, Understatement | |
| Exercises on imagery and figurative language | |
| Sounds Alliteration Assonance Onomatopoeia Exercises on sounds | |
| Rhythm Types of rhythm Enjambment Exercises on rhythm | |
| Versification The verse line Meter Meter and rhythm Meter and syntax | |
| Punctuation Enjambment | |
| Exercises on meter | |
| Rhyme Blank verse | |
| Stanzas Fixed forms | |
| Sonnet Exercises on rhyme and stanza forms | |
| Free verse | |
| Speaker, Voice and Tone First-person lyric | |
| Tone Exercises on speaker and tone | |
| Structure Division into parts | |
| Closure Exercises on structure | |
| Preparing to Write a Close Reading of a Poem | |
| Making notes Your audience Quotations | |
| Writing a Close Reading of a Poem | |
| The introduction Theme Tone | |
| The conclusion Revising and editing Academic integrity | |
| Summary of elements to discuss in a poem | |
| Close Readings of Poems | |
| A. Model Close Readings of Poems | |
| "Death, be not proud" | |
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