6.1. Close reading techniques

• Annotation involves marking up the text with notes, highlights, and comments
• What is the primary purpose of close reading techniques?

  To deeply analyze text
• Understanding the historical and cultural context is essential for contextualization in close reading.


  True
• Steps in structural analysis of a text

  1️⃣ Examine chronology

  2️⃣ Analyze narrative voice

  3️⃣ Study plot structure
• Theme extraction involves identifying recurring ideas and motifs
• Diction refers to the specific word choices made by the author
• Figurative language includes rhetorical devices like metaphor, simile, and personification
• Annotation involves marking up a text with notes, highlights, and comments
• Literary devices are noted in annotations to analyze their impact
• What do key phrases in annotations convey?

  Significant insight
• Identifying key phrases is an essential part of annotation


  True
• Imagery uses vivid descriptive language to create mental images

  True
• Alliteration is the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of words
• Match the text feature with its description:

  Diction ↔️ Word choices made by the author

  Syntax ↔️ Sentence structure and grammar

  Tone ↔️ Author's attitude or emotion
• Annotation is a crucial close reading technique that involves marking up a text with notes, highlights, and comments
• What does imagery in literature appeal to?

  The reader's senses
• What word is used in a simile to make a comparison?

  Like
• What does symbolism in literature use to represent something else?

  An object
• What does the plot in a literary work describe?

  The sequence of events
• What is one example of a logical fallacy that can flaw critical thinking?

  Hasty generalization
• Syntax refers to the grammatical patterns and sentence structure in a text.


  True
• Tone in a text conveys the author's attitude or emotion towards the subject matter.

  True
• Key phrases are important words, phrases, or quotes that convey significant meaning in a text.


  True
• Systematic annotation of a text leads to a deeper and more comprehensive understanding.


  True
• Literary devices are noted in annotations to analyze their impact on the text's meaning
• Steps in effective annotation

  1️⃣ Identify key phrases

  2️⃣ Highlight recurring themes

  3️⃣ Note literary devices
• Match the literary device with its description:

  Metaphor ↔️ Comparison without like or as

  Simile ↔️ Comparison using like or as

  Personification ↔️ Giving human traits to non-human things
• Steps in close reading techniques

  1️⃣ Annotate the text

  2️⃣ Understand historical context

  3️⃣ Identify literary devices
• Narrative perspective is the point of view from which the story is told
• What does annotating a text help you identify?

  Significant details
• Together, language and imagery contribute to the theme, mood, and narrative impact of a literary work.


  True
• Personification involves giving human characteristics to non-human things.


  True
• Identifying literary devices is crucial for understanding the deeper layers of meaning in a text.


  True
• A cyclical structure emphasizes recurring themes and ideas in a narrative.


  True
• Honing critical thinking skills can make someone a more discerning reader, writer, and problem-solver.


  True
• What are literary devices used in close reading?

  Metaphor, simile, alliteration
• What do close reading techniques enable in understanding a text?

  Comprehensive understanding
• What does imagery in a text create?

  Vivid sensory descriptions
• What is narrative perspective in a text?

  The story's point of view
• What do themes highlight in a text?

  Recurring ideas or motifs