ENGL 201: World Literature
Reading Checklist
Professor E. Derek Taylor
9-4-17
1. Who are the major and secondary characters? How does each relate to the other? Be sure to list not only connections of family but also any other major points of agreement or disagreement (i.e., mortal enemies, deeply in love, etc.).
2. What happens of significance in the reading for today? What causes or brings about these happenings? How are the main characters affected?
3. Where do the events in today’s reading occur? If in more than a single location, how do the characters move from place to place? How much time elapses as they do so?
4. If you had to describe the form of the literary text, what would you say? Is it short or long? Prose or poetry? A poem or a play or a novel? Do you recognize it as some particular type of literary work (e.g., epic, sonnet, tragedy)? Has the author done anything unexpected, strange, or surprising in presenting his/her characters and narrative?
5. What is the text “about,” as best you can tell? What point or set of points does the author wish to make? Is the atmosphere established in the text comic, tragic, or in between?
Reading Checklist
Professor E. Derek Taylor
9-4-17
1. Who are the major and secondary characters? How does each relate to the other? Be sure to list not only connections of family but also any other major points of agreement or disagreement (i.e., mortal enemies, deeply in love, etc.).
2. What happens of significance in the reading for today? What causes or brings about these happenings? How are the main characters affected?
3. Where do the events in today’s reading occur? If in more than a single location, how do the characters move from place to place? How much time elapses as they do so?
4. If you had to describe the form of the literary text, what would you say? Is it short or long? Prose or poetry? A poem or a play or a novel? Do you recognize it as some particular type of literary work (e.g., epic, sonnet, tragedy)? Has the author done anything unexpected, strange, or surprising in presenting his/her characters and narrative?
5. What is the text “about,” as best you can tell? What point or set of points does the author wish to make? Is the atmosphere established in the text comic, tragic, or in between?