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How to Read Literature Like a Professor

Authored by Sarah Williams

English

12th Grade

CCSS covered

Used 3+ times

How to Read Literature Like a Professor
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1.

OPEN ENDED QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

2.

FILL IN THE BLANKS QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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.9-10.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

3.

OPEN ENDED QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

How does alluding to Shakespeare give a text authority?

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is the value of including allusions to other writers or texts?

It provides depth and timeless reasonance

It helps the reader understand the meaning

They provide common threads between texts

To create context with struggles between characters

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What can rain symbolize in literature?

Cleansing characters of illusions.

Signaling confusion in characters.

A way of developing atmosphere.

Nothing. A dark and stormy night is just a dark and stormy night.

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Every reader's experience of a work of literature is unique - due to how the individual reader engages with the text. Because of this, it is important that we....

read in isolation.

discuss literature with others.

tweet about what we feel.

research heavily.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What does Foster call the "grammar of literature, a set of conventions and patterns, codes, and rules, that we learn to employ in sealing with a piece of literature"?

Analytical apparatus

Language of Reading

Experienced reader

Illusion of depth

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

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