Tamara Koriagina 305ап

Pavlenko Sofia 305 ап

What is close reading?

Close reading is thoughtful, critical analysis of a text that focuses on significant details or patterns in order to develop. Also is deep, precise understanding
of the text’s form, craft, meanings. It directs the reader’s attention to the text itself.
What makes the text complex?
- vocabulary
- syntax (coherence, unity, audience appropriateness)
- text structures(description, compare and contrast and contrast, temporal sequence, solution and problem, cause and effect
- text features(headings/subheadings, signal words)
- focusing on the text itself
- rereading deliberately
- reading with a pencil
- noticing things that are confusing
- think -pair share or turn and talk frequently
- small groups and whole class
- responding to text - dependent questions
Sirens
Enchantress - чарівниця
Lure - приманка
Hurl - сильний кидок
Ghastly - примарний
Behold - дивись!
Abduct - викрадення
Aggrieved - звинувачений

Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, inventor, teacher, and environmental activist. Since 1961, she has
published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of non-fiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, and two graphic novels, as well as
a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for her writing.
Atwood's works encompass a variety of themes including gender and identity, religion and myth, the power of language, climate change, and "power
politics". Many of her poems are inspired by myths and fairy tales which interested her from a very early age. Atwood is a founder of the Griffin Poetry
Prize and Writers' Trust of Canada. She is also a Senior Fellow of Massey College, Toronto. Atwood is also the inventor and developer of the LongPen and
associated technologies that facilitate remote robotic writing of documents. She did not attend school full-time until she was 12 years old. She became a
voracious reader of literature, Dell pocketbook mysteries, Grimms' Fairy Tales, Canadian animal stories, and comic books. She attended Leaside High
School in Leaside, Toronto, and graduated in 1957. Atwood began writing plays and poems at the age of 6. In 1961, Atwood began graduate studies at
 Radcliffe College of Harvard University, with a Woodrow Wilson fellowship. She obtained a master's degree (MA) from Radcliffe in 1962 and pursued
doctoral studies for two years, but did not finish her dissertation, The English Metaphysical Romance.
Siren Song
- irresistible
- leap
- squadron
- beached skulls
- squatting
- picturesque

James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891) was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New
England writers who were among the first American poets that rivaled the popularity of British poets. These writers usually used conventional forms and
meters in their poetry, making them suitable for families entertaining at their fireside.

Sirens
American scholar John Pollard points out that works of art that have come down to us testify to the connection of sirens with a number of associations and
symbols preserved in literature, not counting the images of sirens on tombstones and those that met Odysseus and his companions. Sirens are depicted next to
Theseus, Artemis, Hero, Athena, Dionysus; although most female sirens, some, especially from earlier eras, have beards. They not only portend death or lead to
death, but also bring unearthly pleasure in their singing and symbolize animal power. In Greek mythology, sirens are demons in a female form. Sirens represent
a deceptive, but charming sea surface, under which there are sharp cliffs or shallows. The siren is a symbol of treachery, seduction, the disastrous temptation of
the material world, which tempts the spirit on its way to the goal.

Number. In Homer, only two nameless Sirens are mentioned. Later authors usually talk about three, naming them in any number of ways. It would seem that
Theixiope, Aglaope, and Parthenope are the three names one encounters with the highest frequency.
Origin. Traditionally, the Sirens were daughters of the river god Achelous and a Muse; it depends on the source which one, but it was undoubtedly one of these
three: Terpsichore, Melpomene, or Calliope. However, according to the great tragedian Euripides, the Sirens’ mother was actually one of the Pleiades, Sterope.
Appearance. In the “Odyssey,” Homer says nothing about the Sirens’ outward appearance, but one can infer from the text that he has in mind humanlike
creatures, if not beautiful maidens. However, at a later date, this all changed and both poets and artists started depicting the Sirens in a similar fashion to how
the Harpies were usually portrayed – that is, as creatures with the body of a bird and a woman’s face (Half-birds, half beautiful maidens, enchantresses,
maidens of wonderful beauty, with a charming voice, lure to death)
Literary version. The literary version is the myth of Odysseus, who sailed on his ship past the island where the sirens lived. He knew that sirens lure sailors to
death with their singing, so he waxed the ears of sailors with wax. Thus they were saved
Sea. Rocks, pleave sounds water,leafs under water, rough water, shallow into the water and through the songs of the Sirens, the sailors died. The sailors were
attracted by sirens and they reached unnavigable rocks.
Island. In any case, most agree that they lived on three small rocky islands, called Sirenum scopuli by the Romans. It was said that the Sirens’ dwelling place
was a ghastly sight to behold: a great heap of bones lay all around them, with the flesh of the victims still rotting off the dead bodies…
In conclusion, it should be said that sirens are not only mythical characters, but they are also reflected in the literature. After reading the poem The Sirens by
James Russell Lowell, we were able to compare it with a myth. Now we have an idea of what sirens were like. The plot of myth and poem have common
features, for example, in both main characters are sirens, which entice sailors to death.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; sea, thou, come, and, to, look, down are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, come, and, ever, a, to are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines forevermore is repeated).