By TED-Ed (2013)
Understanding the deeper meanings present in literature can both give you more to talk about in class, make the text more fun to read, and speed up the paper-writing process. This four-minute video summarizes how to approach a literary text or poem in order to understand its deeper meaning, and gives side by side examples of surface-level and deeper analysis, so you’ll have an idea of what each looks like.
Lesson by Amy E. Harter, animation by The Leading Sheep Studios.
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