READING LITERARY TEXT Flashcards

(63 cards)

1
Q

Constructivism

A

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

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

Schemas

A

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

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

Literary Critisim

A

formal study analysis and evaluation of literary texts

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

Canon

A

seen as culturally, artistically, historically significant

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

American Literature

A

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

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

American Literature Periods/SubPeriods

A
  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)
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

British Literature

A

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

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

British Literature periods/subperiods

A
  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
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

Metaphysical

A

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

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

World Literature

A

all national literature including non-western literature

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

Context

A

theory of situated cognition historical and cultural time when text written

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

Genres/subgeneres

A

literature classified into genres and subgenres

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

Nonfiction

A

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

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

Fiction

A

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

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

Myth

A

story that tries to explain phenomea (pomegrantes)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

Drama

A

expressive writing that tells story

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

prosody

A

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

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

Character tags

A

defining charactersitics

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

Monologue

A

delivered speech to someone or audience

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

Soliloquy

A

delivered speech as nobody listening

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

Poetry

A

expressive verse with rhythm or not

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

Stanza

A

group of lines

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
23
Q

Couplet, tercet, quatrain…

A

2 lines, 3 lines, 4 lines

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
24
Q

Ballad

A

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

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
25
Sonnet
14 lines in iambic pentatmeter (10 syllabys a lines) - Italian Petrarchan 8 lines, 6 lines -Shakesperean 3 quatrains, couplet
26
Haiku
short poem format 3 lines and 17 syllables
27
Villanelle
19 lines lonh, 5 stanzas, a 1 quatrain
28
When giving students poetry reading it is important to
give them multiple readings, think aloud, and collaborate
29
tone
authors attitue toward text
30
mood
what we as audience feel from a work (emotional atmosphere)
31
first person
"I"
32
second person (rare)
"you"
33
third person
outsider perspective
34
omniscent
able to see in minds of characters and share what they are feeling
35
partially omniscent
can see in minds of some
36
limited
only can see and hear no mind reading
37
internal vs external conflict
inner turmoil vs battle
38
Allusion
reference to a character event that is historical, fictional , and mythological, or religous, or artistic work "mona lisa smile"
39
Dialect
how person speaks where they are from
40
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
41
Denotation
dictionary defintion
42
connotation
implied meaning
43
explicit vs implict
explicit is clear and prevents confusion while implicit has readers draw on own conclusions
44
Slant Rhyme
not considered true rhyme
45
Blank verse
unrhymed and pattern like iambic used in milton
46
Free verse
without patter or metter
47
Assonance
same vowel sounds in a line like multiple o's such as "the only other sounds the sweep" NOT ALLITERATION
48
Internal Rhyme
rhyme as we know it
49
Close form/open form poetry
restriction vs unrestrictions (ex: sonnet, blank verse)
50
Theme
central idea
51
Reader-Response theory
as readers read they experience a transacción with the text
52
feminist literary theory
ideas in literature of women and how society write about them
53
queer theory
investigate gender and sexuality
54
deconstructions literary criticism
dissectiong and uncovering writer assumption about what is true and false, good and bad
55
Semiotic analysis
study of sign, signals, visual messages, gestures, behaviors
56
MArxist theory
economic systems and structure of society
57
new criticism/ formalism
empahises closes reading a text and and deriving meaning
58
Building comphrenision in fiction
Graphic/Semantic Organizers, Guided Comprehension Questions, Summarization and Main Idea Exercises,
59
Directed Reading Thinking Activity
students make prediction as the read accoerding to preselcted pause moments
60
QAR strategy
encourages students to identify the type of question and think about how they found the answer
61
SQ3R Strategy
Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review
62
K-W-L Charts
K "What I already know" W "What I want to know" L "What I learned"
63
Group or Paired Strategies
Reciprocal teaching, think-pair-share Peer assisted learning strategies (PALS)