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What are the 5 Close Reading Steps?

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1: Evaluate - What is your reaction to the text?
2: Interpretation - What is it about?
3: Description - How does it look, what are its formal features?
4: Analysis - How are the formal features working and interacting with the text?
5:Critical Analysis - How do the literary elements mesh with what the words are trying to say?

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What is Prosody?

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A general term that encompasses all aspects of poetic meter and form

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Foot

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A basic unit of rhythm within a line

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What is Meter

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Abstract model for poetic measure (a line consisting of feet)

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What is Rhythm

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The actual sound and inflection of the words, the free give-and-take of accents, inflections, and pauses within a line.

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What is an Iamb?

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Unstressed, stressed ( - ‘ )

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What is a trochee?

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Stressed unstressed ( ‘ - )

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What is an anapest?

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Unstressed unstressed stressed ( - - ‘ )

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What is a Dactyl?

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Stressed unstressed unstressed ( ‘ - - )

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What is a spondee

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Stressed stressed ( ‘ ‘ )

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What is a pyrrhic?

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Unstressed unstressed ( - - )

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What is a Caesura?

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A pause in the middle of the line ( || )

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What is an enjambment

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An overflow into the next line ( ->)

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What is ethos

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Good character, good will, good judgment

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What is Pathos

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Understanding the needs of the audience

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Logos

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Clarity and rationale of argument

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Closed couplets

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Ex: …shot timorous ray
… must eclipse the day

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Open Couplets

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…Painting on the wall
Blah blah blah
…Something hall

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Assonance

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the echoing of similar vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of words with differing consonants

Ex: “His tender heir might bear his memory”

(Same consonant sound repeated)

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What is a Ballad Stanza?

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he ballad stanza consists of a total of four lines, with the first and third lines written in the iambic tetrameter and the second and fourth lines written in the iambic trimeter with a rhyme scheme of ABCB

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