Aristotle (c. 333 BCE) and Plato (c. 370 BCE) both acknowledge the importance of a rhetor knowing his audience to better understand and see the available means of persuasion;
This is similar to what I learned in Rhetorical analysis. You have your own narration and are the only one to understand your experiences.
"I'm a text. Sometimes I think this metaphor is faulty, especially since my body isn't booklike, and, although I do have a spine, I don't have pages or a cover....My body is text personified"
Another example of having something contain a deeper meaning rather than it just be on the surface
ates context by forging connections between instantiated action and environmental conditions” (p. 203). In other words, invention happens when one sits down at the computer, facing a blank screen, but invention continues as one moves from the computer screen to the kitchen, from typing to washing dishes;
This is very accurate. It's frustrating at times to have to sit yourself down to write a story for a class because you are pressured to think of something. But if you are out doing something your mind will spark an idea and be inspired, just by a simple leaf falling or a child riding their bike.
Anna positions herself in space, learning through the conjunction of movement, classroom instructions, and at-home reading the directionality of letters, the embodiment of writing"
This is interesting. It's like looking at literature as taking an art class where you look at things using shapes
show rather than tell
This is rule number one when it comes to my writing. I assume the reader knows absolutely nothing and provide detail after detail, leaving the audience to also reveal the overall message the story is telling
Although it is certainly possible to craft inventive juxtapositions with pen, paper, and other analog technologies (as Berthoff, Elbow, Burroughs, and others have shown), it is also true that digital technologies open up new possibilities for practicing creative juxtaposition in our pedagogy and scholarship.
WIthout the internet, I wouldn't have been able to do the second portion of the juxtaposition assignment because I found the pictures from an article I read online.
The first words, images, and concepts that come to our minds are often the most obvious / the most expected / the most banal. Thus, if we wish to be creative, we can benefit greatly by gathering a wide array of disparate materials and then taking the time to experiment with combining and re-arranging these materials in novel ways
English courses have taught me to read more than just the surface. It's about what the author is symbolizing using themes and characteristics.