{"id":23867,"date":"2017-09-15T16:58:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T16:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=23867"},"modified":"2017-09-15T16:58:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T16:58:26","slug":"english-subtext","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-subtext\/","title":{"rendered":"English: subtext"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring English, you know it has its own terms. The tutor brings up <i>subtext<\/i>.<\/h1>\n<p><i>Subtext<\/i> refers to the point the author intends to convey to the reader. It&#8217;s not the literal meaning, necessarily, but rather the true meaning. A quick example follows:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: sans-serif\">A sign hung on the wall: Non-members please have papers ready.<\/p>\n<p>The subtext of the sentence above is that non-members will face more hassle than members.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Barber, Katherine et al (editors). <i>Oxford Canadian Dictionary of Current English<\/i>. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring English, you know it has its own terms. The tutor brings up subtext. Subtext refers to the point the author intends to convey to the reader. It&#8217;s not the literal meaning, necessarily, but rather the true meaning. A quick &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-subtext\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: subtext<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[393,2495,2494],"class_list":["post-23867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-literary-terms","tag-subtext-example","tag-what-does-subtext-mean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23867"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23896,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23867\/revisions\/23896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}