Literary Context

Cards (7)

  • biographical context - it is the analyzing the life and experience of the author to understand the literary text
  • Biographical context can happen by reading the author's biography or autobiography
  • Sociocultural Context - mostly about social, economic, political, and cultural forces affecting the work that you are reading
  • It is important to the year or period a literary context to identify the historical or significant events
  • Linguistic Context - mainly about the language or the choice of words of the author includes sentences, patterns, imagery, etc. of the text.
  • Catch a Falling star by Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo
  • Under My Invisible Umbrella by Laurel Fantauzzo