Reading Strategies

Reading Strategies

Questions analyzing character in fiction

Fiction passages rarely reveal character insights so you must make inferences (draw conclusions) and look for clues in the passage.

Reading tips

• Read the questions before the passage

• Pay attention to character's thoughts, words, and actions a writer uses these to reveal the character

• Let's do some practice

Multiple Choice

How is Warren portrayed in the paragraph?

• He is boring

• He is busy

Multiple Choice

What does Warren do for Walter twice every day?

• He makes him food

• He helps him with homework

Multiple Choice

The details in the scene convey the woman's

• anxiety

• loneliness

• anger

Multiple Choice

The main character can best be described as -

• a young child who is lost

• a person who works at an airport

• a woman in a foreign place

Multiple Choice

The dialogue in the paragraph reveals

• the man's dishonesty

• the boy's indifference

• the boy's cleverness

• the man's generosity

Multiple Choice

The dialogue in the paragraph reveals

• working

• in school

• waiting for friends

• related to the man

Vocabulary

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Reading questions and vocabulary

• a question may give you the target word

• it may provide the meaning in the choices

• BUT you have to read the context

• Let's do some practice

For many, the idea of bungee jumping is an extraneous risk and thus not worth taking.

The word extraneous means ?

The word extraneous means ?

• extreme

• unnecessary

• extraneous: irrelevant or unrelated to the subject being dealt with.

• unnecessary

A far more pragmatic point of view is to take risks only when you have something tangible to gain from them .

Which word has the same meaning as "real"?

Which word has the same meaning as "real"?

• pragmatic: dealing with things sensibly and realistically 

• tangible: perceptible by touch.

• tangible

• Now some more practice

Multiple Choice

In the first sentence, the word tantalizes means

• beckons

• teases

• frustrates

Multiple Choice

In the last sentence, which word has the same meaning as "beautiful"?

• pinnacle

• phenomenal

• sublime

Multiple Choice

In the first two sentences, which word has the same meaning as "came apart"?

• unrolled

• coveted

• deteriorated

• saturated

Multiple Choice

In the third sentence, the word indispensable means

• unbreakable

• surprising

• necessary

• bulky

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