Study Set Content:
Understanding literary selections involves (blank), and it is significant to examine how a text works, why, and what message is conveyed, then communicating that clearly makes up the whole of texual analysis.
critical thinking
This studies the external factors or circumstances surrounding the writing situation which includes the purpose, audience, and focus.
Analyze the rhetorical context.
Identify the writer/ persona in the text.
Analyze the rhetorical context
Give the role or position of the writer/persona
Analyze the rhetorical context
1. Identify intended reader/audience.
Analyze the rhetorical context
1. Clarify exigency of purpose of writing.
Analyze the rhetorical context
This includes the distinctive formal aspects of utterance, text, or art work in any medium.
Examine the textual features
1. Clarify concern or issue addressed in the text.
Examine the textual features
1. Give the position taken by the writer.
Examine the textual features
1. Assess language used in the text.
Examine the textual features
1. Identify text specific features supporting the issue or the writer’s stand.
Examine the textual features
1. Evaluate suggestive level of meanings found in the text.
Examine the textual features
This helps identify how the text relate to other texts and how might another writer or even you use the text
Place the text in a new context.
This includes the contextuality and intertextuality of literary readings.
Place the text in a new context
1. Identify the influences of external factors on the text (socio-political and cultural context).
Place the text in a new context
1. Assess the relationship of the text with other text across culture.
Place the text in a new context
1. Check the universality of the meaning of the text.
Place the text in a new context
Interpreting the meaning and communicating this (blank) is what the reader does in response to the text.
orally or in writing
It is important to note that a text can be meaningful to a reader who cannot express this meaning in
words
includes decoding meanings hidden in the writing of the author or even beyond the text itself.
Literary interpretation
