Textuality » 3A Interacting

Text analysis. First Step.

 Consider the title and see if it suggests possible associations, conjectures andthe like. Poetry 1   

Ex: Beowulf

Donat says it makes him remember the word wolf that is

any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs

 

Other possible meanings

 

entityobject; physical objectliving thing; animate thingorganism; beinganimal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; faunachordatevertebrate; craniatemammalplacental; placental mammal; eutherian; eutherian mammalcarnivorecanine; canidwolfcoyote; prairie wolf; brush wolf; Canis latransred wolf; maned wolf; Canis rufus; Canis nigerwhite wolf; Arctic wolf; Canis lupus tundrarumtimber wolf; gray wolf; Canis lupus

 

Additional title

Ex: Us and Them

 

Teacher: the title seems to hint at a difference between two different groups of people, something that divides and distinguish us from  ...

 

Wuthering Heights

Sguassero and Del Sal have different responses: del Sal translated the title into Italian, Miss Sguassero told us that the title made her think about a very difficult situation.

 

To tell the truth heights refers to:

natural height of a person or animal in an upright position

elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface; "the altitude gave her a headache"

the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top

 

Teacher: wuthering recalls to my mind a progressive aspect so that I think of something dynamic that changes that is not stable

 

Now I can make some conjectures about the possible CONTENT of the text

 

Hypothesis

- The novel might be about some people's   problem

- Some people with a strong personality

- A terrible storm

- The mountains

-  A wide range of difficult situations

 

Home Practice

 

Read the titles below and make conjectures about the possible content of the text with that title

 

Scaffolding

Digging

Se questo è un uomo

The Dove per Miss Bonetto Beltra

 

Write at least 30 lines (90 lines all together)