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Grade 7-8 Language Arts Lesson 5-2 – Responses to Literature Practice Exercises



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

 1. 

To read and gain information from a text is called:
a.
the aesthetic stance
b.
identifying
c.
the efferant stance
d.
summarizing
 

Matching
 
 
a.
Reader Response Theory
b.
Interpretive Community
c.
Formal Analysis
d.
Critical Synthesis
 

 2. 

applies specific theory to a work of
literature
 

 3. 

readers work in groups to respond
to literature
 

 4. 

each reader interprets literature in
his or her own way
 

 5. 

scrutinizes elements of fiction
 



 
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