READING FOR INFORMATION FROM

DIFFERENCE SOURCES

Reading Intensively for Comprehension

Responding to Specific Questions on a Text Read Respond to Specific Questions on a Text Read Reading information fom different sources involves two types of teading which are extensive and intensive reading Intensive rending Involves reading tasks, passages and information carefully with the aim oF gaining knowledge from the information in the text.

Read the introduction: Many introductions contain valuable insights into the author's life and his writing, both of which can enrich your understanding and appreciation of the work. It will often provide background knowledge on the novel Read carefully:This is no time for speed reading or skimming! A careful reading may seem slower, but you will ultimately save more time than if you have to reread everything, Begin reading the novel or short story as soon as itis assigned and read slowly and with attention to

detail! When you are reading a novel or short story, the main areas of focus should beform and content. Formrefers to the writing style and techniques used and how the elements of design are implemented. Content refers to what is the literary work taking about

Parts of Forms

2 Noplot~ The king died and then the queen died.

• Plot= Theking died, and then the queen died of grief.
• Character = Isa fictional person who drives a story or who the story is about
• Setting Awork's natural, manufactured, political, cultural and temporal environment,

including everything that characters know and own (place, time, objects)

• Writer/ authorihis s the person who have written a story

• Style =Ways in which writers assemble words to tell a story, to develop an argument,

dramatise, or they way they use eertain words in the service of eantent,

Parts of Content

• Theme: Results of general and abstract thinking in literature, themes relate to meaning,

interpretation, explanation and significance.

• Literature: embodies values along with themes are vital to an understanding and

appreciation of literature

• ‘Phemes:Are not as obvious as character or setting.
• Tk is important to consider the meaning of what you've read and then develop an

explanatory and comprehensive assertion,

• Message:ts what the reader leams from a literally work

Identifying Themes

Theme Identify theme What exactly is this elusive thing called theme” The theme of a fable is its moral or teaching. The theme of a piece of fietion is its view about life and how people behave.

In fiction, the theme is not intended to teach or preach. In fact, itis not presented directly at all. You extract it from the characters, action, and setting that make up the story. In other words, you ‘must figure out the theme by yourself of your experince may be different from the details ofthe story, the general underlying truths behind the story may be just the connection that both you and the witer are seeking

Identifying Main Features of Different Genres

Identifying main Features of Different Genres Idenify main fearres of different genres Genres of literature include:

• A\Novelis a factious prose narrative of book length, typically representing characters and

‘actions with some degree of realism. +A Play sa work of art which involves performance in a stage, and dialogue

• Poetry: Is made up offigurative language, songs, symbolic language with emphasis on

imagination, emotions, and heartfelt ideas written in stanza and verses. A stanza is a single line ina poem