"close reading" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "close readings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "close reading (countable and uncountable, plural close readings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Literature",
          "orig": "en:Literature",
          "parents": [
            "Culture",
            "Entertainment",
            "Writing",
            "Society",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Language",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Communication",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010 July 1, Heather Horn, “Stop Close Reading”, in The Atlantic",
          "text": "Students almost universally hate close reading, and they rarely wind up understanding it anyway. Forced to pick out meaning in passages they don't fully grasp to begin with, they begin to get the idea that English class is about simply making things up (Ah yes—the tree mentioned once on page 89 and then never again stands for weakness and loss!)",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of a text."
      ],
      "id": "en-close_reading-en-noun-cM8Ai77U",
      "links": [
        [
          "literature",
          "literature"
        ],
        [
          "interpretation",
          "interpretation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literature) The careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of a text."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "New Criticism"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "literature",
        "media",
        "publishing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "close reading"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "close readings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "close reading (countable and uncountable, plural close readings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "New Criticism"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "en:Literature"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010 July 1, Heather Horn, “Stop Close Reading”, in The Atlantic",
          "text": "Students almost universally hate close reading, and they rarely wind up understanding it anyway. Forced to pick out meaning in passages they don't fully grasp to begin with, they begin to get the idea that English class is about simply making things up (Ah yes—the tree mentioned once on page 89 and then never again stands for weakness and loss!)",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of a text."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "literature",
          "literature"
        ],
        [
          "interpretation",
          "interpretation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literature) The careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of a text."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "literature",
        "media",
        "publishing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "close reading"
}