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Reader Response Questions

The document provides a list of 20 reader response questions for analyzing poems, stories, and novels. The questions prompt the reader to consider their initial thoughts and predictions, analyze characters and themes, make connections to other works, and evaluate story elements, literary devices, and the author's perspective. The reader is asked to choose one question and fully develop their response.

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Reader Response Questions

The document provides a list of 20 reader response questions for analyzing poems, stories, and novels. The questions prompt the reader to consider their initial thoughts and predictions, analyze characters and themes, make connections to other works, and evaluate story elements, literary devices, and the author's perspective. The reader is asked to choose one question and fully develop their response.

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Reader Response Questions

Directions: From this list choose a question that seems appropriate for the section and develop a full response.
For poems/stories/novels:
1. What are you thinking about as you read the first paragraphs or stanzas? 2. What do you think the author/poet wants you to know? 3. What are you imagining might happen next? 4. What do you know that is helping you understand what you are reading? What might you need to know more about to help you understand? 5. What clues do you have to the character's/speaker's personality? 6. Do you like the character? 7. What are the character's problems? 8. How is the character like anyone you know or even like you? 9. What information did the author/poet leave out? What's happening behind the words or scenes? How did you fill them in? 10. What other works have you read that are similar in some way to this one? What sticks out as the most important connection between the two? 11. Will you tell your friends about this work? What do you want them to know? 12. What did you like most/least about this poem/story/novel? 13. Was there anything you didn't understand? What was it? 14. What idea was the author trying to explore in this work? How important is that idea? 15. If you were to make a movie of this story, who would be in the movie? What would you change to make the movie fit two hours? What kind of setting would you choose? 16. Who was telling the story (or who was the speaker of the poem)? Does it make a difference? What if someone else were telling it? 17. How do you recognize when literary elements are being used? (symbol, metaphor, foreshadowing, etc.) 18. Do you agree with how the author/poet sees the world? In what ways? 19. How do you feel about the way the story was told? Is there anything you enjoyed or were irritated with about the way the book is written? 20. What do you feel is the most significant passage/word/event from the poem/story/novel?

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