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21st Century (Q2) Flashcards

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refers to any written literary genre that exemplifies the most outstanding characteristics of particular national literatures

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world literature

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world literature is

a. easy to define
b. harder to define

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b. harder to define

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accessible to many people from many cultures, ethnicities, and nations

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world literature

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limited to a specific country or time period

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national literature

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refers to writers limited to a specific region or nation

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regional poets

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tackles universal themes to which a wider audience can relate with

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elements of world literature

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what are the elements of world literature

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  1. love and romance
  2. family and marriages
  3. individual struggles towards success
  4. humanitarian values
  5. coping with tragedy
  6. life cycles
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examples of individual struggles toward success

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cinderella & underdog stories

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involves the exploration of ethical and compassionate values in literature

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humanitarian values

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war, famine, and disasters are examples of

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coping with tragedys

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prevalent themes in 21at century world literature

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  1. proliferation of vampires
  2. sorcery
  3. space and science fiction
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a novella written by Antoine de Saint Exupery

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the little prince

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an aristocrat, pilot,, poet and writer, a much loved classic extolling the virtues of love, inner beauty and friendship

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Antoine de Saint Exupery

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literature written over thousands of years in various Asian countries.

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asian literature

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literary type of Asian writing was usually determined by ___________

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surrounding, culture of time and often expresses the ideologies prevalent in the era.

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three division of Asian literature based on the longevity and influence of the literary traditions of these countries.

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Chinese, Japanese, and Indian literature

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CHINESE literary works include

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fiction, philosophical and religious works, poetry, and scientific writings

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is a clerical script or chancery script, is a truly calligraphic script type, making full use of the flexible brush to modulate the thickness of the line.

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Lishu

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was frequently used in preparing official records and documents, and it was utilized for both public monuments and private correspondence

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Clerical script

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Chinese poetry that flourished in the Tang dynasty (618–907)

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Lushi

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consists of eight lines of five or seven syllables, each line set down in accordance with strict tonal patterns

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Lushi

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Chinese quatrain, is a type of jintishi (“modern form poetry”) it is a four-line poem, each line of which consists of five or seven words.

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Jueju

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major literatures of the world comparable to English literature in age and variety

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JAPANESE LITERATURE

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one of the major bodies of Oriental Literature

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JAPANESE LITERATURE

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less voluminous than Chinese Literature but comparable to Arabic, Persian and Indian Literature.

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JAPANESE LITERATURE

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basic form of Japanese poetry, a short poem with a specific structure and no set rhyme scheme. Made up of three lines of 5-7-5 syllables, totaling 17 syllables:

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HAIKU

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a genre of Japanese collaborative poetry in which alternating stanzas, or ku (句), of 5-7-5 and 7-7 mora per line, consists of alternating haiku and couplets, with each stanza written by a different person.

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RENGA

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type of waka, are made up of alternating lines of five and seven syllables, with an extra line of seven syllables at the end.

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CHOKA

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Japanese poem that is made up of 31 syllables in five lines with the following syllable count: 5, 7, 5, 7, and 7

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TANKA

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30
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body of works produced in India in a variety of vernacular languages like Sanskrit, Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, and Urdu.

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INDIAN LITERATURE

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Hindus regard the epic as both a text about drama and a history

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MAHABHARATA

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MAHABHARATA is an indian epic wiritten in ___________

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Sanskrit

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MAHABHARATA is the longest poem in history with about _____________ couplets

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100 000 couplets

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34
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shorter than mahabharata

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RAMAYANA

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35
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RAMAYANA has ________ couplets

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2400 couplets

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36
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family epics, featuring cousins, uncles and aunts “struggling and killing each other over land and dharma and then mourning inconsolably.

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mahabharata and ramanaya

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37
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Collection of Indian Animal Fables, originally written in Sanskrit

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PANCHATANTRA

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38
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mixture of prose and verse

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PANCHATANTRA

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39
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Characteristics of Old English

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  1. Extensive use of case endings
  2. Language and the literature of Anglo-Saxon
  3. Mixture of pagan traditions, thought about life, the universe and nature, Christian thought and moral values
  4. Earliest for of English language
  5. Use of kennings
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40
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phrases or compound words used to name persons, places, and things indirectly

41
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importance of kennings

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  1. To enhance poetic expression
  2. Paint a visual image for the reader
  3. To add extra layer of description, richness and meaning
42
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longest epic poem, oldest known Old English poem

43
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how many alternative lines does Beowulf have

44
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primary theme is about heroism and loyalty.

45
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The Old English period ended around ________

46
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Old English: The earliest recorded stage of the English language, spoken

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5th century AD to the Norman Conquest of 1066

47
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language of the Anglo-Saxons

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Old English

48
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Middle English period:

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1066 AD to 1485 AD, when the English language was influenced by the Norman Conquest and Anglo-Norman French.

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Modern English period:

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1485 AD to the present.

50
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the norman conquest came with a new language _____________

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Norman French

51
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The influence of __________ on English during this period was profound, reshaping its vocabulary, grammar, and even its pronunciation

52
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English language spoken in England and Wales from around 1100 to 1500

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Middle English

53
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father of English literature

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Geoffrey Chaucer

54
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novel example of literature written in Middle English, written by Geoffrey Chaucer

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The Canterbury Tales

55
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long narrative poem usually about a hero and his deeds.

56
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poem has fourteen lines that follow a rhyme scheme

57
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“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”

58
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tells a story through dialogue, and it is performed on stage.

59
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long prose narrative usually about fictional characters and events, which are told in a particular sequence or in a chronological order.

60
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rose to particular prominence globally during the second half of the 20th century, largely due to the international success of the style known as magical realism.

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LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE

61
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way to express the realistic American mentality and create an autonomous style of literature.

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magical realism

62
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Pre-Columbian cultures were _________

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primarily oral

63
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locally born individuals with European ancestry

64
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principal leaders of the Latin American wars of independence from Spain and Portugal

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Libertadores

65
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period of “foundational fictions”.

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19th century

66
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Novels in the Romantic or Naturalist traditions attempted to establish a sense of ___________, and which often focused on the indigenous question or the dichotomy of “civilization or barbarism.”

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sense of national identity

67
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a poetic movement whose founding text was the Nicaraguan Rubén Darío’s “Azul (“1888).

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modernismo

68
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sometimes characterized by a tendency towards irony and towards the use of popular genres

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Post-Boom literature

69
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After World War II, Latin America enjoyed _________________, and a new-found confidence also gave rise to a _________________

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increasing economic prosperity, literary boom

70
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vehicles of cultural thoughts

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Traditional languages

71
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The most notable literary selections are those that capture the _______________ of the African people.

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life and struggle

72
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The people’s struggle to cope with – or oppose – the changing atmosphere of their homelands was dramatically recorded

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African literature

73
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the affirmation of the values of civilization of something defined as “the black world”.

74
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Negritude writers wrote poetry in ______ in which they presented African traditions and cultures as antithetical, but equal, to European culture

75
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journal, according to its founder, was an endeavor “to help define African originality and to hasten its introduction into the modern world.”

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Presence Africaine by Alioune Diop in 1947

76
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TWO Literary Forms

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Oral Literature
Written Literature

77
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also called orature which includes folk tales, myths, epics, funeral dirges, praise poems, and proverbs

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Oral Literature

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types of oral literature

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myths
epics
dirges
praise poems
proverbs

79
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explain the interrelationships of all things that exist

80
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are short, witty or ironic statements, metaphorical in its formulation which aim to communicate a response to a particular situation, to offer advice, or to be persuasive

81
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are epithets called out in reference to an object in celebration of its outstanding qualities and achievements

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Praise poems

82
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are elaborate literary forms, usually performed only by experts on special occasions. They often recount the heroic exploits of ancestors.

83
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chanted during funeral ceremonies, lament the departed, praise his/her memory, and ask for his/her protection

84
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includes novels, plays, poems, hymns, and tales

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Written Literature

85
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THREE waves of Literacy in Africa

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Ethiopia
Africa
Europe

86
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earliest literatures in the Celtic and Germanic languages of Western Europe.

87
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spread of Islam

88
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through trade relationships, missionary activities, and colonialism propelled the third wave of literacy in Africa

89
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written literatures, novels, plays, and poems in the 1950s and 60s

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literatures of testimony

90
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African authors who produced literatures in European languages

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literatures of revolt

91
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academic or professional purpose. Unlike reading for pleasure, it requires critical thinking skills like doing analysis, developing an argument, and doing an evaluation.

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CRITICAL READING

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CRITICAL READING STRATEGIES:

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  1. Previewing a Text
  2. Contextualizing
  3. Asking Questions
  4. Reflecting
  5. Making an Outline and Summary
  6. Evaluating the Argument
  7. Making a Comparison and Contrast of Related Text
  8. Summary
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enables a reader to get the sense of what the text is all about and how its parts are organized

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Previewing a Text

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considering the time and place in which the text was produced

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Contextualizing

95
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allows one to understand and remember the content of a piece of literature

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Asking Questions

96
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involves examination of the reader’s personal responses to the text

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Reflecting

97
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involves identifying its important ideas

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Making an Outline and Summary

98
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involves assessing the validity of its claim and support

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Evaluating the Argument

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strategy of identifying the similarities and differences between texts of similar issue or approach

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Making a Comparison and Contrast of Related Text

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