Critical Reading 1. Preview. Look “around” the text before you start reading. ... 2. Annotate. Annotating puts you actively and immediately in a "dialogue” with an author and the issues and ideas you encounter in a written text. ... 3. Outline, Summarize, and Analyze. ... 4. Look for repetitions and patterns. ... 5. Contextualize. ... 6. Compare and Contrast. When you write about literature . . . Some Tips for Academic Writers Sentence Style 1. Use simple sentences as rubrics (pointers)
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interaction was precisely the means by which the novel, from the eighteenth century on, sought to manage the strains and contradictions that the sex-gender system imposed on individual subjectivities. For this reason, to recover the centrality of sex and gender as the novel's defining concern is also to recover the dynamism of its bimodal complexity. Conversely, to explore the interplay of realist and fantastic narratives within the novelistic tradition is to explore the indeterminacy of subjectivities
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Compare the methods the poets use to explore the connection between people and the places in which they live in ‘Hurricane Hits England’ and one other poem. In the two poems ‘Hurricane Hits England’ and ‘Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan’ both poets use a variety of literary techniques such as the setting style and themes to invoke within the reader a sense of the narrators nationality in the poem. The poem ‘Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan’ is set in England with a girl remembering her
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terms of the way they move, speak and make decisions. Grandmother MacLeod’s bossiness causes conflict among the members of the family. She wants to keep the house in the same manner as in the past. The author uses different kinds of symbolism to show to the reader the lives of the characters, especially the way Grandmother MacLeod affects everyone around her. Margaret Laurence uses symbols such as the ivory pendant, the Grandmother’s house and birds to represents different kinds of characters in the story
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context for your topic • define key terms Most importantly, your introduction should • convey the pattern of organization you will follow in the paper • build to the thesis sentence: a clear, concise statement of the specific position you will explore in your paper Outline first Outline your argument as fully as possible before starting the first draft. Outlining first helps you to see the shape of your argument, making writing the draft much easier. Start focused Avoid broad openers; start
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feeling sadness for the main character; Madame Loisel. Maupassant’s over exaggerated writing is quick to reflect the flaws of humanity and, combined with the subtle irony of the text, he communicates the piece’s main theme: lies only lead to hardships. Much of Maupassant’s story is conversation, echoing the style of traditional storytelling. He acts as an impartial observer, stating the facts as they are and leaving the reader to draw any conclusions regarding the characters’ personality and morality
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Una lacked to that of a man was their physical strength, which Redcrosse and King Arthur had. To keep herself safe she manipulated both Redcrosse and King Arthur to guard and shield her from her enemies. This corresponded with Queen Elizabeth I because she also lacked the physical strength to protect herself. Queen Elizabeth 1 also used psychological manipulation to assemble an army of men to defend her territory. Una’s character and Queen Elizabeth showed not only having exterior beauty as
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Shakespeare’s tragicomedy, Cymbeline, I tended to want to find the archetypal vices in the heros of the play. Among the most honorable characters: Posthumous, Imogen, Guiderius, and Arviragus, we find that only Posthumous seems to have the only recognizable character flaw in bargaining off his wife for gold. In almost all respects, the children of Cymbeline are perfect characters within the Elizabethan patriarchal ideal. The three of them have an incomplete parentage in the play, having an absent mother,
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joined Florida International University from where she graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Arts in 1992. Her story Traveling Madness basically involves four main characters who are all “dreamers”. The story is based on and highlights the plight and disillusionment visited on the Cuban population by the communist party and the ways in which different people dealt with the economic and social adversities that typified the era of communism in Cuba. Self-aware of the dangers that confronted them, some
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With the help of new friends and her sister Nettie, Celie learns how to use her voice and stand up for herself and not just be a doormat. This novel explores the effect of strong female relationships which are essential for Celie’s development into a independent woman. As the novel is written in a series of letters to God and Nettie by Celie, the characters in the novel are uniquely introduced. The Color Purple would make a great addition to the AP English 12 curriculum, students would learn about the
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