ENGL123 Study Guide - Avatar (2009 Film), Wole Soyinka, Ernest Howard Crosby
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English 123 literature in global perspective notes. Course outline (helen frost: tuesday, january-14-14, tuesday, january-07-14, thursday, january-09-14. Home https://eclass. srv. ualberta. ca: tuesday, april-08-14 (practice exam, short questions) Incarceration - to put somebody in prison: chauvinism - unreasoning, overenthusiastic, or aggressive patriotism. Short response example: 100-150 words, 1st thing should be making a claim, statement, or argument about the text, theme, textual evidence quotes to claim your point, structure, analysis. Home https://eclass. srv. ualberta. ca: make very clear claims and interpretations of the text. Close reading: 3 steps, understanding, noticing, explaining. Understanding: understanding the surface meaning of the text is your starting point. However being able to accurately summarize and paraphrase the text does not stand in for textual analysis (this is a common error). Explaining: this requires sensitivity to small scale textual nuance. Thus you need to pay attention to diction, punctuation, syntax and form as well as plot and character: this might mean discerning patterns in the text.
