Lesson 4

Question 1

or close reading is focused, in-depth analysis of passage from literary text.

Answer 1

CLOSE ANALYSIS

Question 2

A complex thinking technique that involves discovering and taking apart an author’s
meaning, evaluating the author’s meanings based on established standards, and incorporating the meaning into the ideas you already know.

Answer 2

READING STRATEGIES

Question 3

Before you read someone’s work, you must learn some background information about the author’s life, including his or her educational background, professional background, or socio-economic background, which directly or indirectly influence his or her literary work.

Answer 3

BIOGRAPHICAL CONTEXT

Question 4

Reading through a linguistic context means you have to focus on the language used in the literary text and how it is used to convey meaning.

Answer 4

LINGUISTIC CONTEXT

Question 5

The writer’s context knows about the writer’s life,
values, assumptions, gender, race, sexual orientation, and the political and economic issues related to the author.

Answer 5

CONTEXTUAL CONTEXT