Up to Snuff #123: Close reading of literature list
By, Afua Serwah Osei-Bonsu
A slow detailed examination of a text
-Form
-Content
-Figurative content
-Characters
-Time
-Ironic/sentimental
-Humorous
-Context
-One section, larger work
-Relate to definition of larger work
-Context
-Historical
-Cultural events
-Image, similes, meaphors
-Diction
-Etymology
-Secondary definition
-Literal content
-Structure organized
-Style
-Pattern, rhythm, sentence, form, rhyme
-Unconventional grammar
-Stanza
-Equal weight
Works cited:
Richard Abercarian, Marvin Klotz and Samuel Cohen, eds. Literature: The Human Experience: Reading and Writing. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2016, Print