How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapters 4-7

What does Foster mean when he says that "there's no such thing as a wholly original work of literature"?

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

No story is original and no story is created in a/an....

• rush

• igloo

• memory

• vacuum

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

The ongoing interaction between poems or stories is called...

(a)  

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

Who is "the Bard"?

(a)  

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

What Shakespeare play is reworked into West Side Story?

(a)  

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

How does alluding to Shakespeare give a text authority?

According to Foster, what are two of the most common references used in literature? _________ and the _________

(a)  

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

According to Foster, why do writers choose to reference fairy tales in their work?

• It is a part of the multiple story argument he writes about.

• He doesn't state why in the book.

• Readers are likely able to recognize these stories and plots.

• False, writers never reference fair tales in their writing.

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

What is one of the best side effects of borrowing from any prior text?

(a)  

What biblical allusion does the short story Araby make?

• It references the story of Noah

• It references the story or Moses

• It references the story of Adam and Eve; The Fall

• It references the fall of the Devil, kicked out of heaven

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3