Terminology ☺
I have learned a lot of technical terms and general information on the literature as a whole. That will be covered here!
The function of all literature is to create function. We point out stuff like DIDLS to find the hidden ‘so what?’ question.
Poetry – Language that is condensed for artistic effect
•Evolves from the oral traditions because the techniques made it memorable
•Takes longer to explain then to read
Doggerel – rhymed rhythmic prose
Prose – what isn’t poetry
•Takes longer to read then to explain
There are also many terms that I learned. I will not list them all here because that would be a pointless waste of time. However there are a lot of them. We took a vocabulary test on them. This went very well. Then for our final we had to identify them. This did not go as well. Its hard to identify something using definitions that don't mean a ton to me. I think more examples would have been a good thing. Haha.
What is Close Reading?
o AKA explication of text
o Means → developing an understanding of a test that is based on its small details and the larger ideas that those details evoke
o Analyzing not what but how
Tone and Mood
• Tone → speaker’s attitude toward the subject of the work
• Mood → is the feeling the reader experiences
• Try to use at least 2 precise and very specific words
Rhyme
o Free verse (no rhyme)
o End rhyme
o Internal rhyme
o Near rhyme
o Rhyme scheme
Meter
o Iambic pentameter
o Iambic tetrameter
o Blank Verse → unrhymed iambic pentameter
Form
o Recognize a traditional form? --> Comply? Or defy?
o Patterns?
• Italian/Petrarchan Sonnet (Divided into 8 and 6 lines, First have has the issue, second half the answer)
• English/Shakespearean Sonnet (3 four line stanzas and a couplet, 3rd stanza provides a turn, Couplet is a witty remark)
• Elegy
• Lyric
• Ode
• Villanelle
Poetic Syntax
o Run on lines
o Caesura
Sound
o Alliteration
o Assonance
o Onomatopoeia
o Cadence
Annotation
• 1st read through ---> Vocabulary, Odd words, Elements of style
• 2nd read through ---> Patterns, words and ideas that are linked, Shifts in viewpoint or tone, Themes, Pose questions
• 3rd read through ---> Write for 3-5 min about the section, Paraphrase, Identify literary element, Consider its effects
We also studied Critical Lenses
Lens that are based on the text are as follows
• New Criticism
• Structuralism
• Formalist
• Psychoanalytical
Lens that are based on the reader are as follows
• Reader Response
• Post-Structuralism
• Psychoanalytical
Lens that are based on the Culture are as follows
• New Historicist
• Marxism
• Feminism
• Post Colonial Theory
• Literary Darwinism
• Mythological-Archetypal
• Psychoanalytical
This is, again, a great compilation of material and general format for review and study. Explanation of the vocab terms is absent whereas for more abstract concepts like tone, mood and others have a short descriptions.
ReplyDeleteOn that same note, it may be prudent to offer equally quick extras and explanations for the literary eras and means of interpreting text. Though their presence brings to mind what we need to know, should we ever forget what they are in the course of study the presence of a quick definition may help us.
Although, since it is already in our notes, I suppose that's somewhat irrelevant, but the point of assembling the material here was to consolidate it in one spot in the first place.
Nonetheless, good structure for study and review.
Nice terms are used, and great explanations. Nothing I can really say. Except that this is also a great choice for the synthesis.
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