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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

See also

• you
• poetry

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