Close Reading There are those things in life that hardly take any time to become an expert at. Close Reading is not one of those things. Close reading can most simply be defined as the technique of taking a piece of writing piece by piece and hyper-analyzing every little bit of it. The concept may not seem too difficult and complex‚ however‚ most of the thinking behind it is metacognition. Metacognition is the word for thinking about the way you think. Both of these concepts are incredibly important
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Close Reading Close reading is an essential task that demonstrates key skills; it is used throughout the Language and Literature course. Specifically‚ it is used mostly in Part 4 (Detailed Study of Literature) where students complete an IOC (Individual Oral Commentary) on a text studied. Process Skills 1. Read the passage/extract 2. Reread it 3. Annotate for key areas 4. Plan a response 5. Write your response 6. Edit your response Understanding – show the teacher/examiners that you understand
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throughout the play so as to come up with the almost proper analysis. Q1) Is Volpone a miser or not? Why? Concerning that whether Volpone is a miser or not ‚ we better first figure out what exactly a miser is. A miser is someone who has a great desire to possess money and hates to spend it. In my opinion Volpone is both a miser and vice versa. Volpone is a miser in that view that he praises and admires his fortune and tries to increase it in
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A Close Reading Exercise From: http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Literature/21L-003Fall2003/E3B42E8B-1A45-447E-938E-7CC3C79F6FC2/0/notes_on_close_reading.pdf What does it mean to read a text closely and analyze it? Why do we do close reading in literary study? The answers to these questions emerge more from the doing than the talking. Briefly‚ close reading is a basic tool for understanding‚ taking pleasure in‚ and communicating one’s interpretation of a literary work. The skills employed
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dass can encourage you and form the basis of a community that will help and sustain you. But that dass‚ as helpful as it was‚ is not where I learned to write. *itirg ike most-maybe all-vriters‚ I learned to write by and‚ by example‚ from reading books. Instead I answer by recalling my owu most valuable experienee not as a teacher‚ but as a student in one of the few fietion workshops I have ever taken. This was in the 1970s‚ during ny brief careLr as a graduate student in
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Close Reading Chapter 13 Pg.264 Briefly explain the context of the passage: The narrator is on a walk after an attempt to get out of the house to clear his mind. He bumps a woman on his way out and she calls the narrator an inappropriate name causing the narrator to speed up. Well thinking about places he could go the narrator reaches a vendor who is selling yams instantly reminding him of the south. The interaction with the vendor causes a sense of homesickness within the narrator. Passage
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I have chosen to do a “close reading” on the first poem in the book‚ “Land To Light On” by Dionne Brand‚ for Reading Journal one. After reading this poem‚ I cannot help but find myself correcting the English grammar in some of the phrases. Such as “If I am peaceful in this discomfort‚ is not peace‚ is getting used to harm. Is giving up.” It should be “it is not peace‚ it is getting used to harm. It is giving up.” Also the last line in the poem should be “My eyes are not mirrors”. Maybe the poet’s
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“A Child’s Christmas in Wales” is the story of a man retelling certain events from the past Christmases in his life. He describes many activities an experiences through his eyes when he was a young boy as if they were miracles‚ some things that many adults overlook and take for granted. “A Christmas Memory” tells the tale of Christmas traditions between a seven year old boy and a grown woman‚ who the boy views as his cousin and best friend. Each of these stories was written with a certain purpose
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Mosca‚ the parasitic character in Ben Jonson’s Volpone‚ allows the audience to explore human nature of greed at its best. Mosca is the ultimate master of disguise. He is the person who continually implements Volpone’s demands‚ regardless of the consequences‚ which can afflict him as well as others; he is also the one who transpires the necessary lie on every occasion. In the beginning of the play he convinces Voltore‚ Corbaccio and Corvino that they are the sole heir to his master’s estate.
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Volpone - The protagonist of the play. Volpone’s name means "The Fox" in Italian. He is lustful‚ lecherous‚ and greedy for pleasure. He is also energetic and has an unusual gift for rhetoric‚ mixing the sacred and the profane to enunciate a passionate commitment to self-gratification. He worships his money‚ all of which he has acquired through cons‚ such as the one he now plays on Voltore‚ Corbaccio‚ and Corvino.. He enjoys entertainment‚ banquets‚ feasts‚ and love- making. He hates having to make
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