READING LITERARY TEXT Flashcards

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Constructivism

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reading and discussing a variety of texts with student in the classroom (lecture-based approach)
social/cultural component important
so often involves interaction either with a student or text

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Schemas

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cognitive connections that are molded in an individuals mind over time & shape their worldview

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Literary Critisim

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formal study analysis and evaluation of literary texts

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Canon

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seen as culturally, artistically, historically significant

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American Literature

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includes works from the early colonial period through the author associate through the present and is divided in 5 categories

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American Literature Periods/SubPeriods

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  1. The Colonial and Early National Period (life in new world)
    - The Revolutionary period (reason piece founding father papers)
  2. The Romantic Period (emotional/nature)
    - Transcendentalism (self-reliance and good in peope)
  3. Civil War Period (narratives, diaries, speeches)
  4. Realism (being real with portrayal)
    - Naturalism (determinism, scientific objectivism, detachment)
    - Regionalism (region customs beliefs “local color”
  5. The Modernist Period (disinlussionment, sensse of loss)
    - Harlem Renisance (African american literature on civil rights, black culture, arts)
    - The Lost Generation (loss of identity, uncertainty, angst, disiliusionment)
  6. The Contemporary period (post nuclear war and civil right movement time)
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British Literature

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literary texts from british isles (8 period 9 subperiods) debated amongst scholars

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British Literature periods/subperiods

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  1. The Anglo-Saxon Period (OE) 450-1066
    (Epics courage, old english)
  2. The Middle English (Medieval) period (1066-1500)
    (morality plays, folk, ballads, Canteburry)
  3. Renaissance (1500-1660)
    (rebirth of classical values and learning)
    - Elizabethean Age (public theatres)
    - Jacobean Age
    -Caroline Age (metaphysical poets)
    -The Commonwealth period (closing of theatres)
  4. The Neoclassical Period
    - The Restoration (satires)
    -The Augustan Age (women writies)
    - Age of sensibility (antiquity)
    -Enlightenment (intellectuals)
  5. The Romantic Period (1785-1832) (feelings and emotion) horror and ballads
  6. The Victorian Period (1832-1901) (social, religous, and economic turmoil)
  7. The Modern Period (1901-1945) (epiphanies)
  8. Postmodern Period (1945-present) close observation between people
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Metaphysical

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The term ‘metaphysical’ refers to big, complicated philosophical questions about the nature of existence. These questions are often theological, asking about whether any god exists and what that existence or nonexistence means for the world.
Conceits = extended metaphor

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World Literature

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all national literature including non-western literature

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Context

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theory of situated cognition historical and cultural time when text written

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Genres/subgeneres

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literature classified into genres and subgenres

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Nonfiction

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info and involves creative nonfiction, literary nonfiction (students should pay attention to voice, tone, structures, thoughts, ideas)

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Fiction

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Prose genre: folklore, science fiction, horror, realistic fiction, satire (students should pay attention to plot, character, setting, and figurative language

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Myth

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story that tries to explain phenomea (pomegrantes)

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Drama

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expressive writing that tells story

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prosody

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overall liveliness and expresiveness of reading including punctuation and intonation pitch and pauses (DRAMA)

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Character tags

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defining charactersitics

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Monologue

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delivered speech to someone or audience

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Soliloquy

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delivered speech as nobody listening

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Poetry

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expressive verse with rhythm or not

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Stanza

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group of lines

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Couplet, tercet, quatrain…

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2 lines, 3 lines, 4 lines

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Ballad

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short narrative song about an event or considered important to share (public voice)

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Sonnet

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14 lines in iambic pentatmeter (10 syllabys a lines)
- Italian Petrarchan 8 lines, 6 lines
-Shakesperean 3 quatrains, couplet

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Haiku

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short poem format 3 lines and 17 syllables

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Villanelle

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19 lines lonh, 5 stanzas, a 1 quatrain

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When giving students poetry reading it is important to

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give them multiple readings, think aloud, and collaborate

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tone

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authors attitue toward text

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mood

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what we as audience feel from a work (emotional atmosphere)

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first person

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“I”

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second person (rare)

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“you”

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third person

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outsider perspective

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omniscent

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able to see in minds of characters and share what they are feeling

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partially omniscent

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can see in minds of some

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limited

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only can see and hear no mind reading

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internal vs external conflict

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inner turmoil vs battle

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Allusion

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reference to a character event that is historical, fictional , and mythological, or religous, or artistic work “mona lisa smile”

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Dialect

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how person speaks where they are from

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Irony: Verba;, Dramatic, Situational

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Verbal: says something opposite of what is meant
Situational: when something happens that the audience didnt expect to happen
DramaticL: when audience knows something character doesnt

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Denotation

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dictionary defintion

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connotation

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implied meaning

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explicit vs implict

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explicit is clear and prevents confusion while implicit has readers draw on own conclusions

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Slant Rhyme

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not considered true rhyme

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Blank verse

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unrhymed and pattern like iambic used in milton

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Free verse

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without patter or metter

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Assonance

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same vowel sounds in a line like multiple o’s such as “the only other sounds the sweep” NOT ALLITERATION

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Internal Rhyme

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rhyme as we know it

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Close form/open form poetry

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restriction vs unrestrictions (ex: sonnet, blank verse)

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Theme

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central idea

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Reader-Response theory

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as readers read they experience a transacción with the text

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feminist literary theory

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ideas in literature of women and how society write about them

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queer theory

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investigate gender and sexuality

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deconstructions literary criticism

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dissectiong and uncovering writer assumption about what is true and false, good and bad

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Semiotic analysis

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study of sign, signals, visual messages, gestures, behaviors

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MArxist theory

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economic systems and structure of society

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new criticism/ formalism

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empahises closes reading a text and and deriving meaning

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Building comphrenision in fiction

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Graphic/Semantic Organizers, Guided Comprehension Questions, Summarization and Main Idea Exercises,

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Directed Reading Thinking Activity

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students make prediction as the read accoerding to preselcted pause moments

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QAR strategy

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encourages students to identify the type of question and think about how they found the answer

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SQ3R Strategy

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Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review

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K-W-L Charts

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K “What I already know”
W “What I want to know”
L “What I learned”

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Group or Paired Strategies

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Reciprocal teaching, think-pair-share Peer assisted learning strategies (PALS)