Tham khảo tài liệu 'express yourself writing skill for high school part 18', ngoại ngữ, kỹ năng viết tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Writing About Prose Fiction EXPRESS YOURSELF 125 Questions about literature In general there are two types of questions that your teacher will pose about literature short answer and essay. Short answer questions can take the form of true false multiple-choice or any question type for which there is a definite right or wrong answer. These questions are almost always literal and they are almost always concerned with plot and setting. That is they require you to have very specific detailed information from the text. Another way to describe a literal question is that the answer can always be found in the text. For example What is the name of Louise Mallard s husband is a literal question. The answer is right in the story. But all good tests will also require that you go beyond basic textual facts to interpretation. These questions are called figurative or interpretive questions and unlike literal questions they are almost always concerned with characterization and theme. You must know the details from the text but these questions ask you to use those details to draw conclusions and opinions based on them. Why did Louise die at the end This question has several possible answers. Literally she had a bad heart and the shock of seeing her dead husband killed her. But figuratively or interpretively she died because she was also shocked to realize that she really was glad he was dead and then disappointed that he was alive. This isn t stated in the text. It is implied and therefore it is an interpreted response. Good interpretive questions will lead you to use textual details in your responses and you will always score more points if you quote words or lines from the text to support your opinions. For example to say that the narrator in the story Luck was genuinely alarmed that Scoresby would kill thousands of young men because of his stupidity would become much more powerful if you quoted the line from the story that said the narrator thought his hair would turn white he .
