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High School Language Arts Lesson 6 Practice Exercise 1



Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
 

 1. 

_____ is the process of mixing events from your own life with ideas from the text to create a new experience.
a.
Aesthetic reading
c.
Literary criticism
b.
Reader-response criticism
d.
Evocation
 

 2. 

According to aesthetic criticism, a book is good if it _____.
a.
is historically accurate
c.
evokes feelings in the reader
b.
conveys a moral truth
d.
has style
 

 3. 

In order to judge the aesthetic quality of a writer’s work, you should ook at the author’s use of _____.
a.
metaphors
c.
diction
b.
irony
d.
all of the above
 

 4. 

The new experience that a reader creates by mixing life events with ideas from the story is called _____.
a.
aesthetics
c.
style
b.
evocation
d.
diction
 

 5. 

_____ is the art of examining literature.
a.
Aesthetic reading
c.
Literary criticism
b.
Reader-response criticism
d.
Evocation
 



 
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