Literary Skills for Readers - Mondays, Wednesdays or Thursdays

Develop your literary skills through the close reading of a different literary text each week 

Highlights

• Join this course to develop your ability to comment knowledgeably on literature 
• 7 hours of live classes to work on deepening your understanding of how the author creates character, atmosphere and drama
• Read a variety of literary texts and develop your literary analysis skills
• Correction by your native speaker English teacher as you discuss each text 

The Literary Skills for Readers Course

Each week we analyse a different text, discussing it to help you use and improve your spoken English. Participants develop their literary analysis skills, interpreting a wide range of texts, including modern and older literary works. We explore the complexities of language and how a writer crafts a text for meaning. We examine both language features and structural devices to affect how the message is delivered.  Language features might include metaphor and simile, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, the rule of 3, and use of the senses.  Structural devices could include variations to sentence structures, change of tempo, repetition or listing, change of time or shifts in focus, the narrative perspective, and uses of dialogue.  The course enables you to comment incisively on books and literature.

  The 7 week course includes the following extracts:

Geoff says:

"This course is a great way to develop your skills of noticing language and understanding how the author has created characters, atmosphere and drama. It is different to other book club courses as there will be less reading each week - the text we analyse will be an extract of just over one page."

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