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• Text


  A written part of the story, what happens and what is stated on the page. It is everything you see that is not implied.
• Context


  The circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed.
• Interpretation


  Analyzes the text and asserts a meaning for the text as a whole.
• Hypertext


  A non-linear way of presenting information.
• Intertextuality


  A literary device that creates an interrelationship between texts and generates real understanding in separate works.
• Intertextuality


  A literary device that creates an 'interrelationship between texts' and generates real understanding in separate works
• Types of Intertextuality

  • Obligatory Intertextuality
  • Optional Intertextuality
  • Accidental Intertextuality
• Obligatory Intertextuality


  Writer deliberately involves a comparison or association between two or more texts
• Optional Intertextuality


  Connection to multiple texts of a single phrase or no connection at all, intent is to pay homage to the original writer or reward those who have read the hypo-text
• Accidental Intertextuality


  Readers often connect a text with another text, cultural practice or a personal experience, without there being any tangible anchor point within the original text
• Intertextuality

  • Movie references
  • Song references
• Cultural - refers to a particular ‘way of life’, involving religion, race and nationality, as well as things food, dress code and manners.
• Historical - is the broader environment of a topic or piece, which includes how time affects the importance of something.

  It also includes politics, culture, religion, economics and societal

  norms.
• Personal - refers to both author and reader. Author’s lives always influence their work in some way. Reader’s

  background knowledge is also important in constructing a text.
• Ideology - refers to the system of belief and ideas that underpin our attitudes and behaviors. Such ideology may be valued by society as a whole, or be the basis of conflict.
• Social - is how the people surrounding affect and interpret something. Social class, religious affiliation and gender are few factors that affect how people view something and build social context.