Unit 5 Lesson 3: Literary Text Evidence

Question 1

What do you do to support an analysis

Answer 1

To support your analysis, you must provide strong textual evidence, such as the exact details or dialogue from various places in the text.

Question 2

What is the importance of privoding textual eveidnce

Answer 2

Providing textual evidence shows that you have paid careful attention to the text and understand its meaning.

Question 3

textual evidence

Answer 3

the details and information in a literary text that support an idea or analysis

Question 4

What is an inference

Answer 4

Inferences are conclusions that readers draw based on the textual evidence and their own reasoning.

Question 5

What do effective readers do

Answer 5

Effective readers access and evaluate the evidence in a literary text because they know they may need to explain their reasoning to another person. They also know that not every implied detail is strong enough to support an inference. So, they cite specific evidence by quoting or paraphrasing from the text to explain the reasoning behind their inferences.