How to Read Literature Like a Professor

What does Foster mean when he says that "there's no such thing as a wholly original work of literature"?

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The ongoing interaction between poems or stories is called...

How does alluding to Shakespeare give a text authority?

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What is the value of including allusions to other writers or texts?

• It provides depth and timeless reasonance

• It helps the reader understand the meaning

• They provide common threads between texts

• To create context with struggles between characters

What can rain symbolize in literature?

• Cleansing characters of illusions.

• Signaling confusion in characters.

• A way of developing atmosphere.

• Nothing. A dark and stormy night is just a dark and stormy night.

Every reader's experience of a work of literature is unique - due to how the individual reader engages with the text. Because of this, it is important that we....

• read in isolation.

• discuss literature with others.

• tweet about what we feel.

• research heavily.

What does Foster call the "grammar of literature, a set of conventions and patterns, codes, and rules, that we learn to employ in sealing with a piece of literature"?

• Analytical apparatus

• Language of Reading

• Experienced reader

• Illusion of depth

How does recognizing a pattern in a piece of literature help you analyze it?

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If there is truly a set of rules and conventions that are key to understanding literature, to get better at recognizing them, you simply need to __________.

What does Foster mean when he says that 'there's no such thing as a wholly original work of literature'?

• All literature is influenced by previous works.

• Every author copies another's work.

• Originality is impossible in writing.

• Literature is always plagiarized.