Answer the following questions from Chapter 4

Answer the following questions from Chapter 4.

1. Schilb and Clifford recommend eight strategies for close reading: “make predictions as you read; reread the text; test the text against your own experiences; look for patterns in the text and disruptions of them; note ambiguities; consider the author’s alternatives; ask questions; jot down possible answer” (73). Let’s start with the first one. In your own words, why is it important to “make predictions as you read”?
2. What are some important strategies for rereading a text?
3. How do Schilb and Clifford, in your own words, explain the process of “testing the text against your own experiences”?
4. What are some patterns (and disruptions) in a text that Schilb and Clifford discuss?
5. What are ambiguities, and why do they matter when we are reading a text closely?
6. What does it mean “consider the author’s alternatives”?
7. Why should we ask questions as we read?
8. Schilb and Clifford recommend that we “jot down possible answers” to questions that we have about a text. List and explain the five specific things they say readers can do as they answer the questions.
9. For what purpose do Schilb and Clifford include Sharon Olds’ poem, “Summer Solstice, New York City”? (74).
10. Read the poem, and complete the following:
    10A: How does the poem complete or fulfill your predictions?
    10B: How does it match or diverge from your personal background?
    10C: What are the poem’s patterns, and where does it break from those patterns?
    10D: Where are the places where the poem is puzzling, ambiguous, or unclear?
    10E: Identify at least one choice the author made.
    10F: What are some questions you have about the poem that might have more than one answer that might be worth addressing in a paper?
    10G: What are some tentative answers to those questions?
11. Schilb and Clifford recommend annotation as another method of close reading. What is annotation?
12. Why do they include “Girls Online” by Emily Skillings?
13. Read Mia Benton’s annotations of the poem, as well as the paragraphs she wrote based on those annotations. How does Mia make predictions and reflect on her own background?
14. How does she read for patterns and breaks in patterns?
15. How does she read for ambiguities?
16. How does she read for the author’s choices?
17. What tentative answers does she contribute?
18. Another close reading method is to look at topics of literary studies. List ten of these topics, as pointed out by Schilb and Clifford.
19. Why do Schilb and Clifford include Lynda Hull’s “Night Waitress”?
20. After you read “Night Waitress, complete the following exercise: do a ten-minute freewrite in which you try to identify how the poem relates to one or more of the topics mentioned on pages 8384.
21. Another way to read a literary text closely is “identify the speech acts in it” (Schilb and Clifford 89). What does this mean?
22. Why do Schilb and Clifford include Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” and Bishop’s “One Art”?

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