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Reading reflection logs are an opportunity to process your understanding of the book. Listed below are common elements and techniques you can identify in your logs. Simply identifying an example of imagery is not enough - you must go on to explain the effect it has on the reader.
Reading reflection logs are an opportunity to process your understanding of the book. Listed below are common elements and techniques you can identify in your logs. Simply identifying an example of imagery is not enough - you must go on to explain the effect it has on the reader.
Reading reflection logs are an opportunity to process your understanding of the book. Listed below are common elements and techniques you can identify in your logs. Simply identifying an example of imagery is not enough - you must go on to explain the effect it has on the reader.
You will read Touching the Void by Joe Simpson, an autobiographical account of his disastrous climb in the Peruvian Andes in 1985. While completing the reading you must write one reading reflection log for each chapter, which will be due on the second day of class. The reading reflection logs are an opportunity to process your understanding of the book as you read and provide a bit of analysis. They are also an opportunity to identify literary elements and gather quotations, which may be used in future class assignments. Listed below are common elements and techniques you can identify in your logs. Please remember there should be an element of analysis as well. Simply identifying an example of imagery is not enough you must go on to explain the effect it has on the reader. See the next page for the reading log template. Common Literary Elements 1. Plot: It is the logical sequence of events that develops a story. 2. Setting: It refers to the time and place in which a story takes place. 3. Characterization: It is the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character. 4. Narrator: A person who tells the story. 5. Narrative method: The manner in which a narrative is presented comprising plot and setting. 6. Dialogue: Where characters of a narrative speak to one another. 7. Conflict. It is an issue in a narrative around which the whole story revolves can be internal or external. 8. Mood: A general atmosphere of a narrative. 9. Theme: It is central idea or concept of a story. Common Literary Techniques 1. Imagery: It is the use of figurative language to create visual representations of actions, objects and ideas in our mind in such a way that they appeal to our physical senses. For example: The room was dark and gloomy. -The words dark and gloomy are visual images. 2. Simile and Metaphor: Both compare two distinct objects and draws similarity between them. The difference is that Simile uses as or like and Metaphor does not. For example: My love is like a red red rose (Simile) 3. Hyperbole: It is deliberate exaggeration of actions and ideas for the sake of emphasis. For example: Your bag weighs a ton! 4. Personification: It gives a thing, an idea or an animal human qualities. For example: The flowers are dancing beside the lake. 5. Alliteration: It refers to the same consonant sounds in words coming together. For example: Better butter always makes the batter better. 6. Irony: It is use of the words in such a way in which the intended meaning is completely opposite to their literal meaning. For example:The bread is soft as a stone.