The # Q Process: Song Of India Arie

Primarily, one technique is to use words as symbols. Elie Wiesel does this many times in his memoir, Night. Coincidently his choice of his title is one example of using words as symbols. “God’s first act is to create light and dispel this darkness. Darkness and night therefore symbolize a world without God’s presence.” - (Sparknotes.com)

Responses (interact with the text through analysis, predictions, evaluation, and connections, but don’t just summarize)

one, the interior is mainly solid stone with only a small portion of the overall mass being rooms. This design would make using the pyramids as grain depositories highly unlikely. Its shape isn’t contusive to being used as a granary and we know that the Egyptians had actual granaries, they were bee hive shaped buildings found within Egyptian cities. Furthermore, funerary texts have been found on the inside walls of several pyramids. These texts are often called the Pyramid Texts, and they give instructions to the pharaoh on his journey through the afterlife. Documents that have survived until today refer to the pyramids as the tombs of the pharaohs. For example, in the Harper’s Song of Antef (probably from around the 1st Intermediate Period),

In chapter five, “When in Doubt, It’s from Shakespeare” talks about the reappearance of different well known figures in literature. Foster follows this by giving an idea that literature is made based on other literary stories. He states that one of the reasons why story borrowing occurs is because there is only one story and it’s the human experience. Book critics usually refer to the literary works and texts as ‘intertextually’. According to the author, intertextuality is sometimes used to challenge a reader. If the person reading the story can point out the similarities or repetitiveness in the text then the meaning will easily be revealed to them. In conclusion, being able to identify different meaning of literary text and analyze it gives

Finding literary elements in a novel is easy from most people. It shows that authors are not always about just writing but they put in the studies of english. It helps make their book really well, which will make people who read it point out more of the literary elements. In the time of the Butterflies, it states “That first day was the hardest. I was crazy grief, all right. When Dede and Tono walked me into the house, all I wanted to do was like down and die. I could hear the babies crying farr off and voices calming the and Norris sobbing along with her aunt Mate, and all their grief pulled me back from mine. But first, I slept for a long time, days it seemed. When I woke up dedes voice was in my ear, in volking the lord's name. And on the third day He rose again…”(200). In this quote it shows how she is comparing how Jesus rose and came alive again. Which she felt like she was dead, and she was rising again. This is a part of figurative language because it is comparing her and Jesus. Julia Alvarez has used short sentence for the kind of sentence structure. She wrote in something so short such as “And the third day he rose again.” This shows imagery because I can and someone reading this can imagine how she was feeling and maybe how jesus rose from the dead. Diction is a part of many novels. In the quote it shows diction because you can tell how the way Julia Alvarez wrote the book. The way that Julia alvarez stated the quote above shows diction and the way the character is feeling. In the novel it states, “And that's how I got free. I don't mean just going to sleepaway school on a train with a trunkful of new things. I mean in my head after I got to Inmaculada and met Sinita and saw what happened to Lina and realized that I'd just left a small cage to go into a bigger one, the size of the whole country. .” this shows how she was comparing the cage to Dominican Republic. As they do not

“What’s the author purpose?” and many more symbolic images. Pattern dives deeper into comprehending the text and making assumptions. Identifying pattern is found by deeply engaging with the details of the text. Additionally, patters are found by the reader looking beyond the characters, plot and drama observation. Pattern helps recognize difficult text by being more observant of the details the build to the main plot.

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By recognizing patterns you can understand a text much easier. If you connect the information of a story and it still doesn’t make sense, look to find a pattern. A pattern would be when a main character is sad and it is raining. Then you would compare that pattern to a different story and it would help you better understand what is going on.

For instance in paragraph 18 it states, “Push it. Examine all things intensely and relentlessly.” Another example of this is when the author states, “Write about winter in the summer.” (Paragraph 4) The use of short and concise sentences gives a sense that what the author is advising can be achieved with ease. Furthermore, the setences are straight forward and not long, so the reader knows exactly what the author wants them to do. In addition to that, the use of action verbs entices readers to follow the advice because the exact action that is needed has been stated by the author. If one knows exactly what they are supposed to do, they are more likely to do it which is what this author has done here. Finally, the use of literary devices contributes to the tone because metaphors are made which give a better understanding to the reader of what the author is asking of them. Specificially, metaphors are used to connect the author’s ideas to familiar

AO3 = explain links between the texts, evaluating writers’ different ways of expressing meaning and achieving effects

Amongst literary works, the reader is told to contemplate numerous aspects of a particular text. Through the use of literary analysis, the reader is guided to discern information that pertains to the written work they are studying. Literary topics such as: motifs, themes, analysis and deconstruction are ways in which a reader can approach a literary text. However, in Ryūnosuke Akutagawa short story collection Rashōmon and 17 Other Stories the reader is introduced to a multitude of conflicting ideas. Akutagawa uses stylistic writing techniques in order to illustrate the confusion that exists in both the real world, and the fictitious world he creates in his short story In a Bamboo Grove. Thus, Akutagawa further guide the reader to figure out his or her own personal truth. By contemplating the aspects of truth the reader is obliged to concentrate on their own critical reading expertise in order to discern meaning. Through critical analysis of In a Bamboo Grove the reader further expands their own critical reading prowess—ultimately strengthening their critical reading abilities.

in order to input recognition of these concepts into the readers’ minds for better understanding

In this semester we read countless texts all with different messages and significances. The epic poems, stories, sonnets all ranged from being centered around battles and war, dealing with death, love, greed and sorrow or pain. From starting off the year reading Beowulf to finishing off with the Lord of the Flies by William Golding, as a student sitting in room 303 you learn to read the text word for word and in-between what’s actually stated. The written language that most of the texts we are required to write aren’t the easiest to interpret. Although, when you read clearly you don’t only start to understand the stories entirety, but also its

Language techniques are one of the most prominent ways to identify the characters within the text. The reader gets to know the characters by their actions, behavior and thoughts. These features are shown in the text through techniques such as direct speech, imagery, use of dialogue and etc. One example of this is when the

By writing a literary analysis it allows readers to criticize and survey an author’s work. It lets the readers truly be appreciative and to be able to comprehend what the writings meaning is. Analyzing the poems, short-stories, and anything else the author has written, may show the readers what factors helped shape how they wrote. It could also determine the themes given, how the character’s act amongst each other, and how certain scenes are presented. Overall, a literally analysis is written to let the readers really dig into the information given throughout the author’s work.