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What is close reading? - -the detailed analysis of a literary text, usually a short poem or prose excerpt...the close reader typically attempts to account for and justify the presence of all the text's features of sound and sense -Who's speaking? What is the attitude or tone? From which perspect...

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English 150 Midterm #1


What is close reading? - -the detailed analysis of a literary text, usually a short poem or prose
excerpt...the close reader typically attempts to account for and justify the presence of all the text's
features of sound and sense

-Who's speaking? What is the attitude or tone? From which perspective?

-Every aspect of the text is meaningful



Sound in literature... - Alliteration; repetition of sounds



Form in literature... - a works structure of style



Genre in literature... - established category for written work



What was Kimono Wednesdays? - Visitors invited to channel inner Camille Monet by wearing kimonos,
sparked uproar and protests claiming this is orientalism



What is Orientialism? - A set of ideas held by the west

Identifying Asians as "others"

Attraction and replusion, could be both



What was orientalisim in America? - Columbus arrives in the west, thinking near china, dubbed
"Indians", the Boston tea party, trading big things, the 1780s opening trade with china



What is claiming America? - establishing an Asian American presence



What are common orientalist themes? - "heathens"

"feminization"

"backwardness"

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