Annotate With Me (Close Reading Strategies for Literary Passages)

Annotate an excerpt of The Great Gatsby with me in this step-by-step tutorial! We'll mark up this passage with notes to analyze specific literary devices and find the overall theme. You can use these close reading strategies to annotate books or even a literary excerpt on the AP Literature exam! Please subscribe and tap the bell to receive notifications if you want to see more writing videos :)

[sumitasamanta]

I was having this stressful illusion for days about how I decode literature to grains, to study it critically. Because everytime I thought of close reading I imagined scenes where I have to make notes for each and every words and even trunk down lines and phrases from the book to read even deeper. Overally it gave me a sense of how much time I had to put on it because I wanted to read literature that badly so that I can write one, if not literature but at least a novel.

A big thanks to your video, it just saved me from another wave of stress-relief pills. I got to learn how exactly a piece of writing is blasted and analyzed to pieces. From literary devices to symbolism and to themes and figurative language, it all helped me to look at it from big picture perspective.

Thanks again.

[mksketchms]

Hey! Just found your channel and this is easily the best annotating video I found in a long long time. Please touch over more topics related to study English Literature, mainly on how to write answers, how to analyse, and more examples with how to annotate novels etc. Would be a life saver! 🙏🏻

[fridamobegi]

This whole playlist is actually so amazing its helping me so much with english

[mai_vxx]

It’s helped me so much, can you do a part 2 with more passages and maybe talk about what techniques we can keep in mind while annotating??

[elainaanderson]

Thank you so much! I have struggled with close and active reading, and I think this will really help.

[lindasun]

I think any Shakespeare work can be really difficult in certain places in general 🤔 especially long soliloquies...

[gracielacortez]

Great video! It really helped me understand the concept of close reading!

[zachmills]

Great video! What tool were you using to annotate the text in that video? I looks really clean and professional?

[karnam_kautikita]

Thankyou, for this, I'm greatful.

[MsPeerEditor]

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[jesuui]

When your teacher showed this in class

[shemiahwalker]

Do you have basic information or simple explanations on how to annotate. Whether it's non-fiction or fiction books?

[d.t.]

"ashes grow like wheat"—that's 'conceit' I believe. It's a novel and paradoxical comparison. The clause there is also an example of antithesis.

[maddie_xxyt]

Where is this in the book? I’m currently reading this and need some help :)

[dora_froggy]

Hey! I was wondering if you could share the app you use to voiceover such a clear audio? It’s like really good😩

[deedeek]

what did you use to annotate the passage like you did on the video ?

[drearroyo]

Can you annotate an excerpt from Call of the Wild?

[karensmith]

growth and decay is a metaphor not a simile