Communicate our experiences
Charles Bernstein
Class Profiler: Check Levels
This is a list of rhetorical features of individual classes. Pick one class and rate it for each of these characteristics. Rate the levels of these features on a one to ten scale with one the lowest level and ten the highest level. Be specific: give examples to support assessment. Compare two classes based on these features. Also: compare any group of classes based on their likeness/difference from one another. (NOTE: please provide additional parameters for the Profiler, which is in development.)
Name of Class: ENGL 116B - Introduction to Electronic Literature
Professor: D. Snelson
Today’s Date: 10/14/2017
Your name: AW
ratings 1 (low) to 10 (high)
Stylistic Textures and Poetic Diction
Coefficient of weirdness (wackiness quotient)___10
Ambiguity____9
Ambivolence____8
Irreverence____8
Sobriety____2
Humor____6
Eloquence____7
Plainness____1
Sincerity____4
Smoothness (vs roughness, bumpiness, striation)____3
Neat (vs messy)____1
Pretentiousness____2
Subtlety (vs bluntness)____3
Indirect (vs straightforward)____4
Intelligence____9
Visual imagery____7
Dreaminess____3
Particularity (vs generality) of details____3
Stylistic consistency____1
Innovation____8
Originality____10
Ornamental/decorative____2
Relevance____3
Tastefulness____4
Speech-like____1
Dialect___1
Sampling (use of found or quoted material)____10
Comprehensibility____5
Coherence____5
Spontaneity____8
Exploratory____10
Density____8
Predictability____1
Abstractness____8
Sensuousness____1
Weariness____1
Sophistication ____6
Timidity____1
Bravado____3
Courage___6
Unusual vocabulary____9
Complexity____9
Repetitiveness____2
Self-consciousness____7
Artifice (vs “natural”)____8
Difficulty____8
Modern/contemporary (vs old fashioned)____9
Transparency Ratio (outward vs inward pointing)____9
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