| Topic | Name | Description |
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| SESSION 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE; WHAT IS LITERATURE AND WHY LITERATURE MATTERS? | ||
Please fill in the questionnaire on what you have in mind when we talk about literature and why do you think is the role of literature in our life. |
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Study the pictures on the page and identify which genre (prose, poetry, and drama) each of the work belong to. Then, write the elements of each genre that differentiate one genre from the other. |
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| SESSION 2: ELEMENTS OF PROSE, DRAMA, AND POETRY | ||
Close reading is a method to read thoroughly by paying attention to all aspects of the text, such as the format, the elements of the genre, and the small details, such as word choice, word order, figurative language, etc. It can be applied to any kind of text, including literature. On this page, you will read about how to do a close reading. |
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| SESSION 3: THINGS TO LOOK FOR AND LISTEN TO IN A POEM | ||
| SESSION 4: READING POETRY (WORD CHOICE, WORD ODER, AND TONE | ||
| SESSION 5: POETIC DEVICES 1 (IMAGERY, SIMILE, METAPHOR, PERSONIFICATION, HYPERBOLE, METONYMY, SYMBOLISM) | ||
| SESSION 6: POETIC DEVICES 2 | ||
| SESSION 7: MID-TERM EXAM | ||
| SESSION 8: THEME IN PROSE | ||
| SESSION 9. CHARACTERIZATION IN PROSE | ||
| SESSION 10. THEME AND TONE IN PROSE, NOTICING ISSUES AND TOPIC IN TEXTS |
