Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Close-Reading Bingo

This is kinda odd, I feel like I'm singling people out and criticizing them, which i am...it isn't really critquing, because we aren't saying anything good. oh well i guess. sorry if i offend anyone for pointing out your flaws.

1. http://twilightlover2.blogspot.com/ This blog's post was weak in the fact that most of it was quotes from the excerpt. It had little content. This would be a #2 common weakness.

2. http://thinking-anonymous.blogspot.com/ This blog's post was weak because it was short, and not very descriptive. It also included a full quotation that just sat on it's own. It was a "quote island". This would be a #5 common weakness.

3. http://skullandglossbones3.blogspot.com/ This blog's post was weak because of punctuation. They need to put the period inside teh quotation marks. This is a class #8 weakness.

4. http://estella-havisham.blogspot.com/ This blog's post was weak because of the #1 common weakness. They used the "he says" tactic...not literally but they used similar words such as "briefly discusses". I find it along the same lines.

BEST RESPONSE.
http://jimmehftw.blogspot.com/

The colloquial, coarse, and somewhat unmannerly diction in "Catcher in the Rye" exemplifies the narrator's down-to-earth, pissed off at the world personality. His defiant and thick skinned nature jumps out when he explains that all the background information about his life is just "David Copperfield kind of crap" that bores him. As the passage goes on, the author uses phrases like "He's got a lot of dough" and "they're also touchy as hell" to make it feel as though the narrator is just another regular kid who is telling you a story. The terse and all together informal nature of the narrator echoes through the entire passage in this excerpt from "Catcher in the Rye."

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