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Close Reading: The Art and Craft of Assay Chapter 2
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Close Reading • An analysis of a text • Develop an agreement of the text that is beginning based on the words themselves and then on the larger ideas • Beginning with smaller details and then think about the larger meaning • When you write about shut reading, start with the larger meaning and use details equally support • Use it unconsciously and instantaneously • Close reading is used to analyze style
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Style • Components of way • Body language • Gestures • Facial expressions • Tone of vocalism • Book • Sentence structure • Colloquialisms • vocabulary
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Analyzing Manner • We tin amend understand a text by analyzing its tone, judgement structure, and vocabulary just similar nosotros can better sympathize a speaker past analyzing body language, gestures, facial expressions, and book • Style contribute to meaning, purpose, and effect of a text
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Diction and Syntax • Diction- the choice of words • Syntx- arrangement of words • A troupe is aesthetic diction • Metaphor • Simile • Personification • hyperbole • A scheme is artful syntax • Parallelisms • Juxtapositions • Antitheses
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Questions to enquire when y'all analyze diction: • Which of the important words in the passage (verbs, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs) are general and abstract? Which are specific and concrete? • Are the of import word formal, breezy, colloquial, or slang? • Are some words nonliteral or figurative, creating figures of speech such as metaphors?
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Questions to ask when you analyze syntax: • What is the order of the parts of the sentence? Is it the usual (field of study-verb-object), or is it inverted? • Which park of oral communication is more prominent – nouns or verbs? • What are the sentences similar? Are they periodic (moving toward something important at the end) or cumulative (adding details that support an important ideas in the kickoff of the sentence)? • How does the judgement connect its words, phrases, and clauses?
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Talking with the Text • Helps united states to generate questions to do a close reading • Techniques • Annotation – marking the text as y'all read • Dialectical Journal (double column notes) – use columns to represent visually the conversation between the text and the reader • Graphic Organizer – visually organized representation of information
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Annotation • Reading using a pen or pencil • Write on Postal service-it notes if you lot can't write in yous book • Identify main ideas • Place words, phrases, or sentences y'all don't sympathise • Look for figures of speech or tropes • Ask questions or comment on what you are reading • As you read, heed to the voice inside your head and write down what the vox is saying
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Dialectical Journal • Also call double entry notebook or double column notes • Tin can be ready upwardly in a diverseness of ways • Right side primary idea, left side supporting details • Rights side literary techniques identified, left side examples of literary techniques • Breaking the text into smaller sections can help y'all find the details
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Graphic Organizer • Text can exist divided for analysis • Use paragraph divisions as natural breaking points • Takes times to consummate, merely allows you lot to a lot of data to analyze • Tin take many forms
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Consignment • P.48 – use handout provided • Complete the assignment using a shut reading of your choice • As a grouping, select a method of close reading • Everyone needs to exercise a close reading using the technique selected past the group • When everyone has finished, compare how other groups members approached this assignment • Be sure to tell why you selected that close reading
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Analyzing a Visual Text • Many of the same tools of rhetorical analysis and close reading that we have practiced on written texts are also useful for detecting the underlying messages in visual texts, such equally advertisements
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Advertisting • Ambitious tone • Utilize of colloquialism "baby" • Connotation • Word choice • Less aggressive picture show • Shows family unit values • Appeals to women • Tatseful • Power under the hood • Comical element • Big soft letters • Pleasure of unhealthy lifestyle
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From Analysis to Essay • Showtime, read last paragraph on p.51 • Heed to Kennedy's inaugural address • Read it using one of the close reading techniques • Answer the questions on wording and syntax as a grouping. (p.55) • For the remaining time in course and homework, crate a thesis and write an essay analyzing the rhetorical strategies John F. Kennedy uses in his countdown address to achieve his purpose. (p.57) • Hand in annotation, questions, and essay for a grade
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