CS401A's Prelims: Great Books Module 01 Flashcards
For preliminary exams.
These are the styles, systems, or practices in decoding symbols for better comprehension for communication and sharing of information and ideas.
Reading Styles and Techniques
the process of thinking and remembering
Cognitive Process
to recognize and interpret information
Decoding
to take, receive, or obtain something from a specified source
Deriving
the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language
Language Acquisition
method of rapidly moving the eyes over text to get only the main idea and general overview of the content
Skimming
methods of Skimming
Pre-reading
Reviewing
Reading
finding specific information such as name, date, or fact without reading the entire article
Scanning
a grouping of words that go together to mean something;
Phrase Reading
also known as ‘chunking.’
Phrase Reading
Graphs
Diagrams
Charts
Maps
Non-Prose Reading
an active process of thoughtful and deliberate reading to enhance comprehension and enjoyment of a text.
Deep Reading
Also called “slow reading”
Deep Reading
are different perspectives we consider when examining a piece of literature.
Critical Approaches
They seek to give us answers to these questions in addition to aiding us in interpreting literature:
Critical Approaches
What do we read?
Why do we read?
How do we read?
suggests that language is not a stable entity and that we can never exactly say what we mean. Therefore, literature cannot give a reader any meaning because the language is too ambiguous.
Deconstruction
this tries to correct a predominantly male-dominated critical perspective with a feminist consciousness.
Feminist Criticism
This form of criticism places literature in a social context and employs various disciplines, such as history, psychology, sociology, and linguistics, to create a perspective that considers feminist issues.
Feminist Criticism
is a strongly politically oriented criticism deriving from the theories of the social philosopher Karl Marx.
Marxist Criticism
insist that all language use is influenced by social class and economics.
Marxist critics (Marxist Criticism)
evolved out of the same root theoretical system as deconstructionism,
New Criticism
the root theoretical system deconstructionism evolved out of
formalist criticism
focuses on the literary text as part of a larger social and historical context and the modern reader’s interaction with that work.
New Historicism
the basis of this approach is the idea of the existence of human consciousness - those impulses, desires, and feelings about which a person is unaware but which influence emotions or behavior.
Psychological Criticism
removes the focus from the text and places it on the reader instead by attempting to describe what goes on in the reader’s mind while reading a text.
Reader-Response Criticism
