Interpreting Texts, Making Meaning: Starting Small

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 13.02.07

  1. Unit Guide
  1. A Story: Motive : Work :: Motif : Way, but "there is fiction in the space between" 1
  2. A Beginning: Basics : Ground :: Garden : Body, or "…walls have eyes… like mine" 5
  3. A Middle: Analogy : Simile :: Metaphor : Simile, or "a beautiful day of sunshine" 55
  4. An End: or Vision : Symbol :: Ethereal : Basics, or "to save our lives… envision" 71
  5. Bibliography
  6. Appendix
  7. Endnotes

Interpreting the Literal for the Revelational

Jeffry K. Weathers

Published September 2013

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