Monday, January 21, 2008

Homework 1.22.08

Beyond Words
1. Texts can be poems, novels, plays (scripts), or music sheets.

4. Genre is defined as a category used to name and identify a text characterized by a particular form, style, or purpose.

12. Context is the who, what, when and where of a text.

17. Perspective is the illusion of depth in a painting.

18. Point of view is the angle at which a image is portrayed to the audience viewing it. 


Strategies
I. Reading styles
A. pleasure
1. read at a leisurely pace and we incorporate ourselves into the characters
B. academic
1. reading to gain understanding and knowledge
II. Reading in steps
A. first read to get a grasp of what is happening in the story, the setting, characters, and plot
B. annotate : make brief notes in the margins about what is happening or define unfamiliar terms
C. sketch outline: note character development, changes in plot, etc. without going into excessive detail
III. Dialogue
A. quotations recorded form the text paired with the reader's response set up in a list format
IV. Patterns
A. patterns of repetition : two or more things that are linked together in the text
B. patterns of opposition : something in the text that created tension or evoked strong negative emotions

1 comment:

Anna Mkhaylova said...

Eryn, this is good, but you could develop each point in "Beyond Words" a bit further. Could the term 'perspective' be applied to literature? How? How does the context define the text and its potential interpretation?