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In literary criticism, close reading is the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of a text. A close reading emphasizes the single and the particular over the general, via close attention to individual words, the syntax, the order in which the sentences unfold ideas, as well as formal structures.[1]

Close reading is thinking about both what is said in a passage (the content) and how it is said (the form, i.e., the manner in which the content is presented), leading to possibilities for observation and insight.

  1. ^ "Close Reading" (PDF). Pennsylvania: Bucks County Community College. 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-09-03.

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educational tool used to monitor and manage students independent reading practice and reading comprehension in the English and Spanish languages respectively...

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opposition to the theory and methods of close reading: "One thing for sure: it cannot mean the very close reading of very few texts—secularized theology...

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what can be grasped by traditional methods of close reading, and advocates instead a mode of "distant reading" that would look at large-scale patterns as...

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