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Close Reading: Analyzing diction
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Scroll down to find the current assignment posted by due date. Oct 17, 2009. The Axes: The term “diction” covers a lot of ground, but here is a somewhat simplified way to approach. Consider analyzing the diction according to where it falls on any of the two main axes: (1) levels of formality, and (2) Connotation. 1) Levels of formality. Diction can usually be described as one of three different “levels” of style:. How to talk about levels of formality. One thing that is really impressive is having a larg...
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Close Reading: October 2009
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Scroll down to find the current assignment posted by due date. Oct 29, 2009. O'Connor's use of parataxis. This is from O'Connor's most famous story, " A Good Man is Hard to Find. A Good Man is Hard to Find. It's the beginning of the story, but O'Connor doesn't introduce the characters. The grandmother" makes her sound anonymous but also symbolic of grandmothers. Assignments up to 11/4. For 11/2: post on one passage from each of the two readings - the short fictions handed out by Ben and the Communist Man...
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Close Reading: High, Low, and Middle?
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Scroll down to find the current assignment posted by due date. Nov 7, 2009. High, Low, and Middle? Erin found this helpful chart. From the gossipy New York. Magazine that explains it all. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Final paper / exam. For your final event, due 12/16, you may write a 7 -page paper or opt for a take-home exam which you will receive on 12/9. For a summary of rhetorical issues to bear in mind when analyzing prose, refer to my other blog. How do you close read a psychologist? Since t...
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Close Reading: Parker's not back
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Scroll down to find the current assignment posted by due date. Oct 26, 2009. Due to the copying problem, we won't be reading "Parker's Back" for Wednesday. Just the Anderson. Maybe later. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Final paper / exam. For your final event, due 12/16, you may write a 7 -page paper or opt for a take-home exam which you will receive on 12/9. For a summary of rhetorical issues to bear in mind when analyzing prose, refer to my other blog. OConnors use of parataxis. Le vin et le lait.
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Close Reading: A sentence from Don Delillo
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Scroll down to find the current assignment posted by due date. Dec 1, 2009. A sentence from Don Delillo. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Final paper / exam. For your final event, due 12/16, you may write a 7 -page paper or opt for a take-home exam which you will receive on 12/9. For a summary of rhetorical issues to bear in mind when analyzing prose, refer to my other blog. The President Addresses the War. A sentence from Don Delillo. Le vin et le lait. Linguistics 1: place of articulation. Since the...
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Close Reading: August 2009
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Scroll down to find the current assignment posted by due date. Aug 24, 2009. When you see this "assignment" icon, look at the post for information about exactly what to do for the next class. I will not hand out assignment sheets in class. After reading Lanham's chapters, "The Domain of Style" and, chapter one: "Noun and Verb Styles," find an online newspaper from this week. Welcome to Close Reading NYC. First make your blog! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Final paper / exam. The final will involve choosing...
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Close Reading: A Typical Baldwin Sentence
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Scroll down to find the current assignment posted by due date. Oct 12, 2009. A Typical Baldwin Sentence. What is crucial here is that, since white men represent in the black man's world so heavy a weight, white men have for black men a reality which is far from being reciprocal; and hence all black men have toward all white men an attitude which is designed, really, either to rob the white man of the jewel of his naivete, or else to make it cost him dear.". Very typical. This is an "is" sentence. Don't b...
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Close Reading: If you've missed
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Scroll down to find the current assignment posted by due date. Oct 29, 2009. Missed more than a couple classes, then please don't make travel plans on days when class is scheduled during this upcoming holidays. And overall, be careful. A situation can result in which, even if you've been ill, you have to take a "W" because you just haven't been there enough. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Final paper / exam. OConnors use of parataxis. Assignments up to 11/4. Assignment 10/26 - 10/28. More mid-term p...
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Close Reading: More mid-term paper ideas
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Scroll down to find the current assignment posted by due date. Oct 11, 2009. More mid-term paper ideas. Some of you may not understand just how insanely open this paper topic is. Pick something that interests you! Close reading applies to everything, but the trick is: use a topic that gives you a question. Close reading is not. An end in itself. It's a tool to answer questions that are i) worth asking; and which ii) do not have an obvious answer. 1 In the 1930s the New York Times. And, well, perhaps some...
