Textual+Moments

//__Textual features__//** Definition: Textual features are the features that the writers place in their writting, in order to direct readers attention to an important part of the text. By carefully placing the features in the correct position of the plot the writers can direct readers attention to a certain point. As stated by Rabinowitz " textual features have positions within plot structures too, and a novelist can direct attention by careful placement in this regard as well" (pg. 64). Alliteration, topography, and consonance are all examples of textual features.
 * Sehar Fatima and Hannah Samuel

//**Examples**// of the usage of textual features can be seen in most of the books. For instance, in the book called //Three Cups of// Tea every chapter begins with the name of the chapter and the subtitle states a phrase taken from famous places. This can be seen on this attached link [|img007.jpg], in the begining of the chapter the reader's attention is directed towards the name of the chapter and then the saying right below it. This saying reveals the main point of the chapter and it also relates to it. In this case typography has been used in order to direct the reader's attention.

Example 1: On page 100, we find a scene with Mr. & Mrs. Roth fighting about Aunt Evelyn's request to bring her fiance, Rabbi Bengelsdorf, over for dinner to meet Sandy, who recently returned from a summer in Kentucky, working for a American Christian family. Mr. Roth feels very strongly against this reunion and so, calls Evelyn ridiculous before stating,//"This is all ridiculous."// Mrs. Roth retorts by saying that he is a very important man, and to her reply Herman says//, "That's why I hate him."//
 * __Examples from The Plot Against America:__**

This passage of dialogue continues to use more italics thoughout, in topics of the war, the Rabbi, and politics. Author Philip Roth, felt the necessity to add this form of typography in the dialogue to catch the readers attention to the feelings of tension Mr. Roth has for the Rabbbi. This scene needs to catch the readers attention specifically to set a backround and tone to the scene that will follow, with the dinner scene Mrs. Roth in planning for them all. Here the typography is added specifically to have the reader create and develop a better understanding of the charcters as a whole.

Example 2: On page 177, we find a bolded and captialized heading shining from the buttons of the American-German Bund Rally members shirts reading: OUT OF THE JEWISH WAR** This form a typography used by Roth is for a very different purpose than character development. The buttons reflect the tension between two groups of people from this time. The Bund was an organization in support of Nazi Germany whom also believed in ant-seminism, and thus showing the tension between this group and the Jews.This group had gathered in Madsion Square Garden to make their views known. This heading is also for the puropse of catching the readers' eyes but also is there to make a connection to later and earlier parts of the book where this group created havoc. Once when celebrating on street corner in Chapter 1, and again at the end of the book when the riots break out and murder and plunder many Jews across America. The buttons re-state their veiws to the reader, and also create the feeling of amnosity for the other side.
 * KEEP AMERICA