... how they learn. A growing volume of research is also available which recommends reader response approaches and introduces cognitive teaching strategies, techniques, and activities that promote creative, active, collaborative learning in literature classroom in order to make literary study life-relevant and personally meaningful to students. In this regard Showalter (2004), Egan (2005) and Moore (2002) ... understanding of the world outside their classroom. These approaches being teacher centered view literature as a species of knowledge. Teachers take it as their responsibility to impart...

• Word Count: 1829
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

... enables students to read between the lines and explore all literary aspects of the text. For example, there are many literary devices used in Holes' such as, irony, symbolism, humour, euphemisms, metaphors, and the use of mystery and the techniques used to convey warnings or clues to the reader. ... situations. Although perhaps not as keen to analyse the book, an adult reader can still benefit from the writer's varied use of literary techniques, simply in comprehending and appreciating them. The mystery and content of the novel can perhaps be understood better and in more depth by ... ver...

• Word Count: 1943
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... enables students to read between the lines and explore all literary aspects of the text. For example, there are many literary devices used in Holes' such as, irony, symbolism, humour, euphemisms, metaphors, and the use of mystery and the techniques used to convey warnings or clues to the reader. ... situations. Although perhaps not as keen to analyse the book, an adult reader can still benefit from the writer's varied use of literary techniques, simply in comprehending and appreciating them. The mystery and content of the novel can perhaps be understood better and in more depth by ... ver...

• Word Count: 1946
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... , who are immediately drawn to discovering what new direction can be taken. However, these advantages can inversely be to a considerable disadvantage. Those with an utmost respect for the original literary text can find the adaptation too different from their ideals and reject it all together. For some reason, such criticisms tend to revolve primarily around adaptation from literature to cinema ... and Jane Campions Portrait of a Lady, Hammett and Huston's The Maltese Falcon and even George Orwell's literary masterpiece and Michael Radford's adaptation of 1984, and somehow try and discove...

• Word Count: 2182
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... , or are there visual and/or performance aspects to it? What should and shouldn't be included? A typical dictionary might define poetry as literary composition written in verse with meaning. This simple definition only characterizes poetry on the surface, but there is so much more to poetry than ... always had an important place. It has always stood apart from all other forms of literature. It is the basis of every branch of literary and artistic expression. Poetry is why paintings, films, novels, and musical compositions are poetic. Poets say that poetry is a way to ... of poetry is to...

• Word Count: 1645
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

... , setting, events, point of view, tone, irony, imagery, etc. In other words, idea is illuminated through these literary elements. Often, different people reach different opinions about the idea in a literary work and many times there is more than one idea presented. Therefore, in-depth research of an author and his work ... is needed to discover the point he is trying to get across to his reader. Idea can be substantially influential in a literary work causing the reader to acquire or reinforce existing values and, as a result, have a great impact on the reader's life. Now one can study ...

• Word Count: 1379
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... what Disney and his animation sought out to do. Zipes begins with a discussion of how oral fairy tales evolved in the nineteenth century into literary works. Most book bound tales came along with a series of illustrations and images that were "very much in conformity with the text" (429 ... often emotional, and action must be short and fun. Disney's animators accomplished this with the use of coloured gels and all sorts of new techniques that only a mastermind like Disney could develop with the limited technology available. For his film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Disney spent ... m...

• Word Count: 1360
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... tonality in the opening line of the poem, using soft, placid vowels and consonants to possibly denote the graceful and harmonious nature of love. In lines 1-2, Duffy presents somewhat of a literary crescendo. The soft tonality of the opening line is then abrasively heightened with the inflection of the 'f' consonant in "Aflame". This stark contrast could allude to the ... "empathy", and Duffy personifies the stars as tears in the eyes of the dark evening sky. Duffy is world-renowned for her skilful intermeshing of intertextuality in her literary works, and, in this specific poem, w...

• Word Count: 1990
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate