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Hi, /lit/.
So, basically, I have to memorise 10 works for my January exams. How do you go about learning your texts?

>> No.3268880

>>3268858
Any advice? Maybe if I listed the texts:

Assorted Dickinson poems
Assorted short stories of Poe
Chopin: The Awakening
Wharton: The House of Mirth
Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
Middleton: The Revenger's Tragedy
Kyd: The Spanish Tragedy
Beaumont: Knight of the Burning Pestle
Webster: The Duchess of Malfi
Centlivre: The Busie Body

>> No.3268883

What do you mean by memorize?

>> No.3268884
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3268884

Take notes.

Here's one: No homework threads on /lit/

>> No.3268888

>>3268884
I'm not asking you to do the bloody revision for me.
>>3268883
Basically know all of them in detail; be able to discuss them with support from critical sources.

>> No.3268890

>>3268884
Read global 6, you've never fulfilled that so why try and attack others?

>> No.3268904

>>3268890
No one?

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choose very short, very simple texts. any of the early works of enid blyton would be good.

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>>3268888
know them in detail? at the start you said you had to memorise them, not fucking deconstruct them! jesus christ, just read the fucking books. try to work out why the author put those particular words in those places. i can not believe they don't teach fucking deconstruction at schools.

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>>3268890
>6 The quality of posts is extremely important to this community. Contributors are encouraged to provide high-quality images and informative comments.
>you've never fulfilled that

I was seriously giving my advise. Take notes. Or do you damn me here because we don't like homework threads, and my advise is still considered shit posting.
Entire threads go by and you never complain...

>> No.3268921

>>3268916
Well, of course they do. I was wondering more about how you would go about retaining the info. The exams are closed-text, after all.

>> No.3268929

>>3268921
Oh my god it's not a fucking science.
Read the text.
Read it again. Think about how the poem flows. Think about the rhyme scheme. Think about the plot line. What stands out to you? What's around what stands out to you?
Try to remember the first line.
If you need help, look at the line.
Try again.
Try again.
Try again.
TRY THE FUCK AGAIN.
Try the next line. Look if you need help.
Try again.
Try again.
Try the first line again.
Try again.
Try the second line again.
Try again.
Move on to the third line.
....
Try the last line again.
Go to bed.
Wake up the next morning.
What was the first word in the poem?
Recite the poem.
Try again.
Try again.
Try again, ad infinitum.

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>>3268921
how i do it? i read the books at least a dozen times, so when some asshole collars me and says "HAY LISTEN TO THIS POEM I WROTE" and continues

"A screaming comes across the sky.
it has happened before,
but there is nothing to compare it to now,"

i can recognise the words, punch his teeth out and snarl "don't rip off Pynchon, cocksucker."