READING LITERARY TEXT Flashcards
Constructivism
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
Schemas
cognitive connections that are molded in an individuals mind over time & shape their worldview
Literary Critisim
formal study analysis and evaluation of literary texts
Canon
seen as culturally, artistically, historically significant
American Literature
includes works from the early colonial period through the author associate through the present and is divided in 5 categories
American Literature Periods/SubPeriods
- The Colonial and Early National Period (life in new world)
- The Revolutionary period (reason piece founding father papers) - The Romantic Period (emotional/nature)
- Transcendentalism (self-reliance and good in peope) - Civil War Period (narratives, diaries, speeches)
- Realism (being real with portrayal)
- Naturalism (determinism, scientific objectivism, detachment)
- Regionalism (region customs beliefs “local color” - 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) - The Contemporary period (post nuclear war and civil right movement time)
British Literature
literary texts from british isles (8 period 9 subperiods) debated amongst scholars
British Literature periods/subperiods
- The Anglo-Saxon Period (OE) 450-1066
(Epics courage, old english) - The Middle English (Medieval) period (1066-1500)
(morality plays, folk, ballads, Canteburry) - 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) - The Neoclassical Period
- The Restoration (satires)
-The Augustan Age (women writies)
- Age of sensibility (antiquity)
-Enlightenment (intellectuals) - The Romantic Period (1785-1832) (feelings and emotion) horror and ballads
- The Victorian Period (1832-1901) (social, religous, and economic turmoil)
- The Modern Period (1901-1945) (epiphanies)
- Postmodern Period (1945-present) close observation between people
Metaphysical
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
World Literature
all national literature including non-western literature
Context
theory of situated cognition historical and cultural time when text written
Genres/subgeneres
literature classified into genres and subgenres
Nonfiction
info and involves creative nonfiction, literary nonfiction (students should pay attention to voice, tone, structures, thoughts, ideas)
Fiction
Prose genre: folklore, science fiction, horror, realistic fiction, satire (students should pay attention to plot, character, setting, and figurative language
Myth
story that tries to explain phenomea (pomegrantes)
Drama
expressive writing that tells story
prosody
overall liveliness and expresiveness of reading including punctuation and intonation pitch and pauses (DRAMA)
Character tags
defining charactersitics
Monologue
delivered speech to someone or audience
Soliloquy
delivered speech as nobody listening
Poetry
expressive verse with rhythm or not
Stanza
group of lines
Couplet, tercet, quatrain…
2 lines, 3 lines, 4 lines
Ballad
short narrative song about an event or considered important to share (public voice)
Sonnet
14 lines in iambic pentatmeter (10 syllabys a lines)
- Italian Petrarchan 8 lines, 6 lines
-Shakesperean 3 quatrains, couplet
Haiku
short poem format 3 lines and 17 syllables
Villanelle
19 lines lonh, 5 stanzas, a 1 quatrain
When giving students poetry reading it is important to
give them multiple readings, think aloud, and collaborate
tone
authors attitue toward text
mood
what we as audience feel from a work (emotional atmosphere)
first person
“I”
second person (rare)
“you”
third person
outsider perspective
omniscent
able to see in minds of characters and share what they are feeling
partially omniscent
can see in minds of some
limited
only can see and hear no mind reading
internal vs external conflict
inner turmoil vs battle
Allusion
reference to a character event that is historical, fictional , and mythological, or religous, or artistic work “mona lisa smile”
Dialect
how person speaks where they are from
Irony: Verba;, Dramatic, Situational
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
Denotation
dictionary defintion
connotation
implied meaning
explicit vs implict
explicit is clear and prevents confusion while implicit has readers draw on own conclusions
Slant Rhyme
not considered true rhyme
Blank verse
unrhymed and pattern like iambic used in milton
Free verse
without patter or metter
Assonance
same vowel sounds in a line like multiple o’s such as “the only other sounds the sweep” NOT ALLITERATION
Internal Rhyme
rhyme as we know it
Close form/open form poetry
restriction vs unrestrictions (ex: sonnet, blank verse)
Theme
central idea
Reader-Response theory
as readers read they experience a transacción with the text
feminist literary theory
ideas in literature of women and how society write about them
queer theory
investigate gender and sexuality
deconstructions literary criticism
dissectiong and uncovering writer assumption about what is true and false, good and bad
Semiotic analysis
study of sign, signals, visual messages, gestures, behaviors
MArxist theory
economic systems and structure of society
new criticism/ formalism
empahises closes reading a text and and deriving meaning
Building comphrenision in fiction
Graphic/Semantic Organizers, Guided Comprehension Questions, Summarization and Main Idea Exercises,
Directed Reading Thinking Activity
students make prediction as the read accoerding to preselcted pause moments
QAR strategy
encourages students to identify the type of question and think about how they found the answer
SQ3R Strategy
Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review
K-W-L Charts
K “What I already know”
W “What I want to know”
L “What I learned”
Group or Paired Strategies
Reciprocal teaching, think-pair-share Peer assisted learning strategies (PALS)
