Arrange the steps involved in close reading sequentially, from what you would do first to what you would do last.
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summarize what you read and highlighted.
take notes on your reactions to the literary elements you identified.
reread the story.
read the story from beginning to end.
annotate specific parts of the text by highlighting phrases or sentences and noting the literary elements used.

Character sketch of mini from cabuliwallah.

2read this passage from "the raven." what is puzzling the speaker in this stanza? 60% but the raven still beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, straight i wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door then, upon the velvet sinking, i betook myself to linking fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore- what this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore meant in croaking "nevermore." s and what the raven's message is why the raven came to visit where the raven came from how the raven got into his room

What effect does an author achieve b the language of the monstrous? y using words with strong connotations? how does this relate to