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How to Read Literature Like a Professor
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- Get thee to a nunnery Who steals my purse steals trash [Life's] a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing The better part of valor is discretion (Exit, pursued by a bear) A horse!†
Chpt 6
- And at times Noah is what it signifies.†
Chpt 10
- No writer in the West can employ a rainbow without being aware of its signifying aspect, its biblical function.†
Chpt 10 *
- Does that sound like a man who didn't understand what his narrative signified?†
Chpt 13
- WE'VE SPENT QUITE A WHILE thinking about specific tasks involved in the activity of reading, such as considering how this means x, that signifies y, and so on.†
Chpt 20b
- It's something that signifies a message.†
Chpt 26
- The thing that's doing the signifying, call it the signifier, that's stable.†
Chpt 26
- The message, on the other hand, the thing being signified (and we'll call that the signified), that's up for grabs.†
Chpt 26
- The message, on the other hand, the thing being signified (and we'll call that the signified), that's up for grabs.†
Chpt 26
- The signified's meaning stands opposed to what we expect.†
Chpt 26
- What elements does Mansfield employ to cause the story to signify whatever it signifies.2144zat elements, in other words, cause it to mean the things you take it to mean?†
Chpt 27
- I asked you to tell me what the story signifies first, but for my own response, I'm going to hold that for last.†
Chpt 27
- What does the thing over there signify?†
Chpt Intr.
- Every American should know enough of the blues to understand exactly what keys and locks signify, and to blush when they're referred to.†
Chpt 16
- So in a literary work, does submersion in water always signify baptism?†
Chpt 18
- Sometimes, though, it may just signify birth, a new start, largely stripped of spiritual significance.†
Chpt 18
- But more often than not physical markings by their very nature call attention to themselves and signify some psychological or thematic point the writer wants to make.†
Chpt 21
- First question: what does the story signify?†
Chpt 27
- Second question: how does it signify?†
Chpt 27
- What elements does Mansfield employ to cause the story to signify whatever it signifies.2144zat elements, in other words, cause it to mean the things you take it to mean?†
Chpt 27
- What does this signify?†
Chpt 27
- Here's what she said: What does the story signify?†
Chpt 27
- How does it signify?†
Chpt 27
- So what does the story signify, then?†
Chpt 27
Definition:
to indicate (to show or to mean)