Reading Techniques: Decoding Symbols for Better Comprehension

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What is the main goal of skimming?

  • To locate specific pieces of information
  • To read each word carefully
  • To understand the meaning of each word
  • To grasp the main idea (correct)

Which reading technique involves rejecting or ignoring irrelevant information to locate a specific piece of information?

  • Intensive reading
  • Extensive reading
  • Scanning (correct)
  • Skimming

What does intensive reading focus on?

  • Locating specific pieces of information
  • Fluency
  • Main idea
  • Accuracy of comprehension (correct)

Which reading technique lays more emphasis on fluency and less on accuracy?

<p>Deriving (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is language acquisition in the context of reading techniques?

<p>The process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the cognitive process as mentioned in the text?

<p>The process of thinking and remembering (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term used to describe groupings of words that go together to mean something?

<p>Reading Groupings (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which critical approach focuses on the interaction of the reader with the text and examines the reader's reactions and thoughts to a piece of work?

<p>Reader-Response Criticism (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

According to New Criticism, what is everything needed to analyze a work contained within?

<p>The text itself (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which critical approach relates the author’s life and thoughts to their work?

<p>Biographical Criticism (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does Psychoanalytic criticism argue about literary texts?

<p>They express the secret unconscious desires and anxieties of the author (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does Historical Criticism primarily reflect a concern with?

<p>The social structure of the time (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does Gender/Feminist Criticism primarily address?

<p>Issues of masculinity and femininity as binaries (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is Non-prose Reading concerned with?

<p>Graphic forms or non-prose forms such as maps, tables, charts, and graphs (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is usually involved in reading for pleasure?

<p>Out-of-classroom activity (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does Critical Approaches to Reading Literature involve?

<p>Analyzing language and literary conventions such as plot, rhyme, meter, dialect, setting, point of view, etc. (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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